linux-kernel - Re: New filesystem for Linux

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Date:	Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:08:24 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Cc:	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New filesystem for Linux

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:36:09PM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:09:39PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > >In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote:
> > >[]
> > >>From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> > >>
> > >>As Mikulas points out, (1 << anything) won't be evaluating to zero.
> > >
> > >How about integer overflow ?
> > 
> > C standard defines that shifts by more bits than size of a type are 
> > undefined (in fact 1<<32 produces 1 on i386, because processor uses only 5 
> > bits of a count).
> ,--
> |#include <stdio.h>
> |int main(void) {
> |	unsigned int b = 1;
> |
> |	printf("%u\n", (1 << 33));
> |	printf("%u\n", (b << 33));
> |	return 0;
> |}
> |$ gcc bit.c && ./a.out
> `--
> 
> There *is* difference, isn't it?

It's undefined, and the results with your example depend on the gcc 
version and optimization level.

E.g. with gcc 4.1, there is *no* difference any more if you turn on 
optimization.

cu
Adrian

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