linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] rtc: tx4939: avoid unintended sign extension on a 24 bit shift

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:14:51 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Andy Shevchenko' <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
CC:     Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
        "linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] rtc: tx4939: avoid unintended sign extension on a 24 bit
 shift

From: Andy Shevchenko
> Sent: 16 February 2018 14:23
...
> Wouldn't be better to use le32_to_cpu() or get_unaligned()?

Or shoot the members of the ANSI C committee who insisted on
promotion of unsigned char/short to int and sign preserving
promotion of int to unsigned long :-)

	David