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Message-ID: <20070419092339.GA13569@dwarf.suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:23:39 +0200
From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
To: akpm@...l.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] fix abs() macro to work with types wider than int
Hi,
is there any reason to use an explicit int instead of a typeof in
the abs() macro? The current implementation will return bogus
results when used with longs.
How about changing the int to a typeof like this?:
Fix the abs() macro to work with wider types than int.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
--- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ extern int cond_resched(void);
#define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0)
#define abs(x) ({ \
- int __x = (x); \
+ typeof(x) __x = (x); \
(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x; \
})
--
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ
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