From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 14:40:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110412144032.1fc09497.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110412143340.e26fc370.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:33:40 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:16:58 +0300
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:10:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:07:26 -0700
> > > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > + __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().
> >
> > I haven't read every abs() user, but, yes, sizeof(abs()) silently
> > changing is the issue.
>
> It changes signedness_of(abs(signed_expr)) as well. That changes the
> signedness of expressions which use abs() and on and on.
> --
thanks for the further explanations.
---
~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 21:40 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
2011-04-12 21:16 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-12 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-12 21:40 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
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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