On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: ? > +#define round_up(x, y) ({ __typeof__(x) __mask = (y)-1; \ > + ((x)+__mask) & ~__mask; }) > +#define round_down(x, y) ({ __typeof__(x) __mask = (y)-1; (x) & ~__mask; }) Yes, except we might as well simplify it. Do it without the statement expressions, using just a single 'y'. Like this: #define __round_mask(x,y) ((__typeof__(x))((y)-1)) #define round_up(x,y) (((x) | __round_mask(x,y))+1) #define round_down(x,y) ((x) & ~__round_mask(x,y)) (Yeah, it uses 'x' twice, but the second one is for 'typeof', which doesn't actually cause the value to be evaluated, so it's ok). Now those 'round_xyz()' operations will always return a value of a type that is the same as the type of 'x' except it's gone through the normal C integer promotion rules (ie if 'x' is a smaller type than 'int', then it will be promoted to 'int'). Not very well tested, but it _looks_ correct, and uses Peter's trick, and willlet the compiler notice that round_up(x,y)-1 is the same thing as x | (y-1) which it _could_ have perhaps figured out before, but now it's way more obvious. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html