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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, rpjday@mindspring.com, bbpetkov@yahoo.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com,
	satyam@infradead.org, amitkale@netxen.com,
	achim_leubner@adaptec.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] unify DMA_..BIT_MASK definitions: v3.1
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:24:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071005152450.a7652b75.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4706AC8D.1030100@goop.org>

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:28:45 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > #define DMA_BIT_MASK(n)         ((u64)-1 >> (64 - (n)))
> >   
> 
> Yeah, that's cleaner.
> 

Well yes, but DMA_BIT_MASK(0) invokes undefined behaviour, generates a
compiler warning and evaluates to 0xffffffffffffffff (with my setup).

That won't be a problem in practice, but it is strictly wrong and doesn't set
a good exmaple for the children ;)


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18 19:46 [PATCH 1/1] unify DMA_..BIT_MASK definitions: v3.1 Borislav Petkov
2007-09-19 15:03 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-10-05 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-05 20:43   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05 21:00     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-05 21:03       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-10-05 21:23         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-06  7:54           ` Borislav Petkov
2007-10-05 21:24         ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-05 21:28           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05 22:24             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-05 22:32               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-06  8:37       ` Borislav Petkov

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