Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 2016-03-04 12:12, Florian Westphal wrote: > >Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> >+ if (tmp >= UINT_MAX || d > 0.9999999) > >> >> >+ return error(loc, "Probability " META_PROB_FMT " too %s", d, "big"); > >> >> > >> >> You are misappropriating some 430 points here. 0.9999999 maps to > >> >> just 0xfffffe51. > >> > > >> >Sorry, I am not following. > >> > >> 0.9999999997 is still a valid probability, but you are making it > >> impossible to select it by cutting off at d > 0.9999999000. > > > >I'll change it to allow one more digit, so that supported range will > >be 0.00000001 [10^-8] (0x0000002a) to > > 0.99999999 (0xffffffd4). > > Let's ask differently. What precludes the use of the full range > (0x0/0x1) [2*10^-10] to (0xffffffff)? Mapping smallest probability to 0x1 and largest one to 0xffffffff means I lose ability to print back a number as entered. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
