On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mit, 2010-01-27 at 11:57 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > > > Fixing the places which assign negative values to unsigned variables is a good janitor task. > > > > I had the impression that assignment to -1 was done sometimes as a > > portable way to initialize the variable to 0xffff (for any number of f's). > > So perhaps it is not so trivial to fix. > Any particular reason that ~0U, ~0UL, and ~0ULL shouldn't do the same > (without relying on conversion from signed to unsigned)? Then the constant specifies the type? julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
