Linus Torvalds wrote:
> actually prefer
>
> if (complex_test)
> return complex_expression1;
>
> return complex_expression2;
>
> over
>
> return (complex_test) ? complex_expression1 : complex_expression2;
Trade offs trade offs...
Compare:
int mr (unsigned int rate, int r)
{
int e = 16+9;
static int round[4]={0, 0, 0xffff, 0x8000};
if (!rate) return 0;
for (; rate & 0xfc000000 ;rate >>= 1, e++);
for (;!(rate & 0xfe000000);rate <<= 1, e--);
return ((rate & ~0x02000000) | (e << (16+9)) + round[r]) >> 16;
}
Dense code, right? Floating point in the kernel.... Aaargh.
Compare that with one hundred and twenty heavily commented lines in
drivers/atm/ambassador.c ..... (A very neat driver, by the way,
although you don't need 120 lines of code to do the above....)
Roger.
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