linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make is_signed

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Date:   Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:21:48 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com,
        joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com, rodrigo.vivi@...el.com,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make is_signed_type() simpler

On 29/09/2019 22.06, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> * Simply compare -1 with 0,
> * Drop unnecessary parenthesis sets
> 
> -#define is_signed_type(type)       (((type)(-1)) < (type)1)
> +#define is_signed_type(type)       ((type)-1 < 0)

NAK. I wrote it that way to avoid -Wtautological-compare when type is
unsigned.

Rasmus