Re: [PATCH nft 7/9] expression: cleanup expr_ops_by_type() and handle u32 input

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:54:52AM +0200, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 16:19 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:28:29PM +0200, Thomas Haller wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > The check "if (value > (uint32_t) EXPR_MAX)" is only here to ensure
> > > that nothing is lost while casting the uint32_t "value" to the enum
> > > expr_types.
> > 
> > Is this cast really required? This is to handle the hypothetical case
> > where EXPR_MAX ever gets a negative value?
> > 
> 
> EXPR_MAX is never negative.
> 
> If EXPR_MAX is treated as a signed integer, then it will be implicitly
> cast to unsigned when comparing with the uint32_t. The behavior will be
> correct without a cast.
> 
> But won't the compiler warn about comparing integers of different
> signedness?
> 
> The cast is probably not needed. But it doesn't hurt.

Applied, I removed the cast and I added a note in the commit that I
mangled this myself, it is really turns out we really need it, we can
recover it. Thanks.



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