On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:05:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sure, it's unlikely to cause a problem in practice. Maybe five years
> from now, after idr has been cleaned up and switched to 64-bit, we've
> left a little hand grenade for someone. It would be good to
> future-safe it in some fashion.
>
> I wonder if we should add some generic facility to handle this:
>
> /*
> * Query whether an unsigned type is `negative' when we don't know its size
> */
> #define msb_is_set(v) { implementation goes here ;) }
>
> Maybe not justified, dunno...
The thing is it's not only about MSB. Any bits beyond 1 << 31 are
problematic, so we want a range test.
Thanks.
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tejun
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