Ray Lee wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2007 7:21 AM, Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> - if (jiffies - ent->last_usage < timeout)
>> + if (time_before(jiffies, ent->last_usage + timeout))
>
> I don't think this is a safe change? subtraction is always safe (if
> you think about it as 'distance'), addition isn't always safe unless
> you know the range. The time_before macro will expand that out to
> (effectively):
>
> if ( (long)(ent->last_usage + timeout) - (long)(jiffies) < 0 )
>
> which seems to introduce an overflow condition in the first term.
>
> Dunno, I may be wrong (happens often), but at the very least what
> you've transformed it into is no longer obviously correct, and so it's
> not a great change.
Indeed. The bottom form will have overflow issues at time
jiffies_wraparound/2, whereas the top form will have overflow issues
only near jiffies_wraparound/1.
-hpa
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