netdev - Re: [BUG] before() integer overflow

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Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:24:27 +0200
From:	Nicolas Bareil <nico@...ir.org>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] before() integer overflow

David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com> writes:
>         In the sequence space, 0xffffffff is before 0 (by 1), so
> before() should return true. In your example, you don't have enough
> f's for it to be -1 as a signed number, so I'm assuming you mean
> 8 of them there. If you mean 6 f's, then the result is not -1, but the
> positive number 0xffffff, which returns false.

Yes I meant 8 f (I should change my too small fonts ;) )

Thanks to Ben for his explanation, I thought the PAWS was handled in a
specific way. Sorry!

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