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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:41:47 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 1/3] math.h: add DIV_ROUND_UP_NO_OVERFLOW
From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 25 October 2023 18:41
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 22:38, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Linus Torvalds
> > > > - we can't even use a statement expression and __auto_type, because
> > > > these things are used in type definitions etc and need to be constant
> > > > expressions
> >
> > Doesn't min() get around that by using is_constexpr() and
> > __builtin_choose_exptr() - the same could be done here.
>
> Nope. I wanted to do it that way - it would have made things much
> simpler and avoid the whole _Generic() thing, but try it - you cannot
> use statement expressions in a non-function context even with
> __builtin_choose_expr().
_Generic() has exactly the same issues as __builtin_choose_expr().
All the code has to be valid for all types.
Makes testing for negative constants a PITA.
Something like this worked:
(__buitin_choose_expr(__is_constexpr((x) && is_signed_type(__typeof(x)), x, 1) < 0)
Although our is_signed_type() isn't constant (enough) for pointer types.
So you need another check for (typeof(x))1 being constant.
> And no, min/max have never been usable in that context
I've clearly not tested it and assumed the comment implied
that was ok.
It'd probably work in C++ - which is perfectly willing to
add functions to initialise static data - even when you'd
rather have a compile time error.
David
>
> Linus
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