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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org,
	Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Simplify (and warn about) right shifts that result in zero
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:52:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209081131.12561.45.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804241452250.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> +		warning(insn->pos, "right shift by bigger than source value");

The sparse warning for shifts exceeding the target width is:

"shift too big (%d) for type %d"

And the gcc 4.3 warning is

"right shift count >= width of type"

So I would suggest a similar warning is this case.  Maybe "right shift
too big (%u) for source type %s" (if the source type is readily
available) or "right shift count (%d) >= width of type (%d)"

By the way, your patch has caught something interesting in
net/mac80211/tkip.c:

        iv32 = data[hdr_len + 4] +
                (data[hdr_len + 5] >> 8) +
                (data[hdr_len + 6] >> 16) +
                (data[hdr_len + 7] >> 24);

Wow!

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080424193856.14737.16718.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
     [not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804241248290.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-24 21:52   ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix cast instruction generation Linus Torvalds
2008-04-24 21:54     ` [PATCH 2/2] Simplify (and warn about) right shifts that result in zero Linus Torvalds
2008-04-24 23:52       ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-04-25  0:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-25  0:34           ` Pavel Roskin
2008-04-25  2:32           ` Josh Triplett
2008-04-25  2:29       ` Josh Triplett
2008-04-25  2:24     ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix cast instruction generation Josh Triplett

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