From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
yi.zhu@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org,
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c: Correct use of ! and &
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:19:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305081904.GA17789@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204700995.17484.7.camel@brick>
* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Al's patch is:
> >
> > + if (op == '&' && expr->left->type == EXPR_PREOP &&
> > + expr->left->op == '!')
> > + warning(expr->pos, "dubious: !x & y");
> >
> > i think there might be similar patterns: "x & !y", "!x | y", "x | !y" ?
> >
>
> Well, (!x & y) and (!x | y) are probably the two that might have been
> intended otherwise. (x & !y), (x | !y) are probably ok.
i think the proper intention in the latter cases is (x & ~y) and
(x | ~y).
My strong bet is that in 99% of the cases they are real bugs and && or
|| was intended.
Ingo
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802262143570.18200-QfmoRoYWmW9knbxzx/v8hQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-05 6:38 ` [PATCH 6/9] drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c: Correct use of ! and & Ingo Molnar
2008-03-05 6:49 ` Christopher Li
2008-03-05 7:02 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20080305070201.GA32434-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-05 7:09 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-03-05 8:19 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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2008-03-05 12:13 ` Derek M Jones
2008-03-05 8:55 ` Julia Lawall
2008-03-05 12:20 ` Ingo Molnar
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2008-03-05 12:30 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <e2e108260803050430o317d3e0dyed50e86cc4569746-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-05 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-05 12:35 ` Julia Lawall
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