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From: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@ammasso.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove pointless <0 comparison for unsigned variable in fs/fcntl.c
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:03:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A3C1AE.5060604@ammasso.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411240003300.3389@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> if pid_t is 16 bit, then the value can never be greater than 0xffff but, 
> if pid_t is greater than 16 bit, say 32 bit, then the argument "a" could 
> very well contain a value greater than 0xffff and then the comparison 
> makes perfect sense.

If pid_t is 32-bit, then what's wrong with the value being greater than 
0xFFFF?  After all, if pid_t a 32-bit number, that implies that 32-bit 
values are acceptable.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
timur.tabi@ammasso.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-23 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-21 22:55 [PATCH] Remove pointless <0 comparison for unsigned variable in fs/fcntl.c Jesper Juhl
2004-11-22  1:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-23  9:42   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-23 10:42     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-23 18:28       ` Bryan Henderson
2004-11-23 18:03     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-23 18:39       ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-23 18:37         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-23 19:20           ` linux-os
2004-11-23 23:16           ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-23 19:13       ` Timur Tabi
2004-11-23 23:09         ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-23 23:03           ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2004-11-23 23:19             ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-23 23:09               ` Timur Tabi
2004-11-23 23:28                 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-25 22:34             ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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