Messages in this thread | | | From | Rolf Eike Beer <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.23-pre3] Possible bug in fs/buffer.c | Date | Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:12:36 +0200 |
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Am Montag, 8. September 2003 17:58 schrieb Alan Cox: > On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > It's neither ugly, nor bogus. The only 100% reliable way to assign the > > maximum value to an unsigned integer is to use -1. > > Its not 100% reliable either 8). Properly you should use the limits.h > values. The kernel assumes 2's complement so just adding a cast would > probably keep gcc happy
gcc didn't even find that. He complained about a line slightly above this one. In limits.h there is no value equal to -1UL.
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