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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] scripts/dump-guest-memory.py: Add
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On 20/01/2016 11:03, Janosch Frank wrote:
> 
> In python 3:
> 1/2 == 0.5
> 1//2 == 0
> but a // b == floor(a/b), i.e. a cast is made.
> 
> Anyway, I got rid of the import with:
> -(-len_desc // 4)

I would change that to either:

    def ceil_div(a, b)
        return -(-a // b)

    ...

    ceil_div(len_desc, 4)

or

    (len_desc + 3) / 4

Paolo