linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Avoid that check_shl_overflow() triggers a compiler warning when building with W=1

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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:09:46 +0100
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid that check_shl_overflow() triggers a compiler
 warning when building with W=1

On 08/03/2019 08.01, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 
> Mathematical therm for discrete numbers greater or equal to zero is
> "normal numbers".

Sorry, WHAT? "Normal" is used and abused for a lot of things in
mathematics, but I have never heard it used that way. When attached to
the word "number", it means a real number with certain properties
related to its digit expansion(s). And then of course there's the
isnormal() thing for floating point values in C/computing.

Strong NAK to using is_normal/is_negative.

Rasmus