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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	openib-general@openib.org, tom@opengridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid truncating to 'long' in ALIGN() macro
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:56:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaodqv5e5l.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061124.220746.57445336.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:07:46 -0800 (PST)")

 > Perhaps a better way to fix this is to use
 > typeof() like other similar macros do.

I tried doing

#define ALIGN(x,a)				\
	({					\
		typeof(x) _a = (a);		\
		((x) + _a - 1) & ~(_a - 1);	\
	})

but that won't compile because of <net/neighbour.h>:

	unsigned char		ha[ALIGN(MAX_ADDR_LEN, sizeof(unsigned long))];

gcc says:

/scratch/Ksrc/linux-merge/include/net/neighbour.h:104: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function

I guess that could be fixed by changing that declaration but now this
is starting to feel like early 2.6.20 material.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-25 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-25  5:40 [PATCH] Avoid truncating to 'long' in ALIGN() macro Roland Dreier
2006-11-25  6:07 ` David Miller
2006-11-25 22:56   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-11-25 23:05     ` David Miller
2006-11-25 23:09       ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-26  0:41         ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-26 19:09           ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-26 19:10           ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-26 19:17             ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-26 20:06               ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-26 20:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-26 20:26                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-26 21:06                   ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-26 22:20                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-27  4:41                     ` Al Viro
2006-11-26  1:10       ` Al Viro
2006-11-26  1:17         ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-26  1:25           ` Al Viro

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