Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT] Networking | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:56:16 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 13:30 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > I'll stop making inane arguments if you stop bashing arguments I > didn't make. :) I said the helpers were useful for multiplication (by > which I meant both signed and unsigned) and, to a lesser extent, for > signed addition and subtraction. > > I don't believe I even tried to justify usub_overflow as anything > other than an extremely minor optimization that probably isn't > worthwhile.
Also how much of the problem is simply that the function signature (naming and choice of arguments) just plain sucks ?
Cheers, Ben.
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