linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make sure abs() always works on a signed argument

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Message-ID: <m3eienu3ex.fsf@hase.home>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:22 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com>
To:	michalj@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure abs() always works on a signed argument

Michal Januszewski <michalj@...il.com> writes:

> To fix this problem, explicitly cast the argument of abs() to signed, so
> that it gets properly expanded to long in case the original argument was
> an int.

This will of course re-introduce the truncation, and effectively reverts
a49c59c0.

Andreas.

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