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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, behlendorf1@llnl.gov,
	oleg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove abs64()
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:10:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110412141040.a5706346.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110412140726.3f4f2a7b.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:07:26 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:

> > --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> > @@ -143,28 +143,27 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void);
> >  
> >  #define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0)
> >  
> > -/*
> > - * abs() handles unsigned and signed longs, ints, shorts and chars.  For all
> > - * input types abs() returns a signed long.
> > - * abs() should not be used for 64-bit types (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64()
> > - * for those.
> > - */
> > -#define abs(x) ({						\
> > -		long ret;					\
> > -		if (sizeof(x) == sizeof(long)) {		\
> > -			long __x = (x);				\
> > -			ret = (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
> > -		} else {					\
> > -			int __x = (x);				\
> > -			ret = (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
> > -		}						\
> > -		ret;						\
> > -	})
> > -
> > -#define abs64(x) ({				\
> > -		s64 __x = (x);			\
> > -		(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
> > -	})
> > +#define abs(x)								\
> > +({									\
> > +	typeof(x) _x = (x);						\
> > +									\
> > +	__builtin_choose_expr(						\
> > +		__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(_x), signed char),	\
> > +		(unsigned char)({ _x < 0 ? -_x : _x; }),		\
> > +	__builtin_choose_expr(						\
> > +		__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(_x), short),	\
> > +		(unsigned short)({ _x < 0 ? -_x : _x; }),		\
> > +	__builtin_choose_expr(						\
> > +		__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(_x), int),		\
> > +		(unsigned int)({ _x < 0 ? -_x : _x; }),			\
> > +	__builtin_choose_expr(						\
> > +		__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(_x), long),		\
> > +		(unsigned long)({ _x < 0 ? -_x : _x; }),		\
> > +	__builtin_choose_expr(						\
> > +		__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(_x), long long),	\
> > +		(unsigned long long)({ _x < 0 ? -_x : _x; }),		\
> > +	_x)))));							\
> > +})
> 
> that is better?

I think so.

It's a bit concerning that it changes the return type of abs().

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-12 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-12 21:00 [PATCH] remove abs64() Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-12 21:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-12 21:10   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-04-12 21:16     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-12 21:33       ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-12 21:40         ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-12 21:14   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-13 14:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-04-13 18:48   ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-13 20:20     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-04-13 20:26       ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-13 20:36         ` Alexey Dobriyan

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