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Message-ID: <47389448.4050107@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:58:32 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
CC: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] x86: apicdef unification: some constants made unsigned
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Robert Richter wrote:
>
>> -#define GET_APIC_VERSION(x) ((x)&0xFF)
>> -#define GET_APIC_MAXLVT(x) (((x)>>16)&0xFF)
>> -#define APIC_INTEGRATED(x) ((x)&0xF0)
>> +#define GET_APIC_VERSION(x) ((x)&0xFFu)
>> +#define GET_APIC_MAXLVT(x) (((x)>>16)&0xFFu)
>> +#define APIC_INTEGRATED(x) ((x)&0xF0u)
>
> No point in doing this -- hexadecimal literals are unsigned by
> definition. File a compiler bug if you see them interpreted otherwise.
>
Not unless they have to be (see C99 if you don't believe me... on a
I32LP64 system for example, 0x7fffffff is signed int, 0x80000000 is
unsigned int, 0x100000000 is signed long).
What is this supposed to solve in the first place?
-hpa
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