From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix typing error in compound assignment
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:40:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161210224046.GA7541@macbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d5af300-0a96-aec0-27a9-61efd768cdd2@ramsayjones.plus.com>
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 09:22:52PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> On 10/12/16 09:52, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> > But what is really done currently is something like:
> > x = x / (unsigned int) a;
> > In other words, the left-hand side is casted to the same type as the
> > rhs and the operation is always done with this type, neglecting the
> > usual conversions and thus forcing the operation to always be done
> > with the rhs type, here 'unsigned int' instead of 'long'.
>
> I have read this paragraph repeatedly, but I just can't understand
> what you are saying, unless I swap left-hand-side for right-hand-side
> and vice-versa. :-P
Hum ... yes, you're absolutely right.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-10 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-10 9:52 [PATCH] fix typing error in compound assignment Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-12-10 21:22 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-12-10 22:40 ` Luc Van Oostenryck [this message]
2016-12-10 22:43 ` [PATCH v3] " Luc Van Oostenryck
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2016-12-07 14:33 [PATCH] " Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-12-10 2:14 ` Al Viro
2016-12-10 6:25 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
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