linux-kernel - Re: [KJ][PATCH] BIT macro cleanup

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:09:25 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [KJ][PATCH] BIT macro cleanup

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:03:09AM +0530, Milind Arun Choudhary wrote:
> --- a/include/linux/bitops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
>   */
>  #include <asm/bitops.h>
>
> +#define BIT(nr)	(1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))

I think this would be a disaster because something like

	BIT(123)

would not even generate a warning.

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