On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 01:31:25PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I think problem is that we shift 1 by 32 bits in this case (31 - 0 +
> 1) and that overflows the size of unsigned. So there is this corner
> case where it does not seem to work (or atleast outputs warning).
Right, that is a corner case which overflows the shift. The only thing I
can think of right now is:
#define GENMASK(h, l) ((u32)GENMASK_ULL(h, l))
u32 because we're implicitly assuming we're dealing with 32-bit unsigned
quantities.
There might be a better solution though...
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