Re: [PATCH] bitops: simplify generic bit finding functions

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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:36 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 01:29:21PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
> > Oh, I didn't realize, I only did this because sparse started spewing out
> > lots of:
> > include/linux/bitops.h:166:32: warning: shift too big (65536) for type unsigned long
> > 
> > due to shift by size there, and again on line 202...I just wanted something
> > that sparse wouldn't warn about and was a little easier to understand to boot.
> 
> That's a sparse problem, really.  I wonder if we simply should introduce a
> new node type: EXPR_WARN.  So that expand would generate those from things
> like division by zero/overflow/bad shift *and* emitting an insn for those
> would generate a stored warning.

Well, even though it is a sparse problem, I think my revised version was
cleaner code anyway.

> 
> Objections?

None here

Harvey

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