Re: 2.4.9 does not compile [PATCH]

David S. Miller
2001-08-17T06:10:37Z

From: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:29:58 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> Wrong. This is legal:
>
> int test(unsigned long a, int b)
> {
> return min(a, b);
> }

I would hope that it would warn: what if a is the maximum size that an
array can be and b is a value passed in from userland? Most definately
not an expected result.

My example was poor, consider if 'b' was something like '100'
or for some other reason you already know perfectly well
the legal range of 'b' or 'a'.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com