On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 07:59:59AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> Does anyone working on overflow-proof integers? That would make a lot of >> this code so much simpler if we could just ask the compiler to carry the >> oferflow bit around for a given expression and then check that and bail >> with -EINVAL. > > That would be nice, but no, I don't think that's part of any C standard > work that I have heard of :( Well we have refcount_t already, stitching something together that would work and not suck too badly with performance should be possible. But yeah direct compiler support would be better (and would allow optimizing the carry flag checks I guess). I kinda hoped Kees&team would be working on this eventually. Adding Kees+kernel-hardening, maybe he'll grow fond of this :-) -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
