On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:53:13PM -0500, John Rose wrote:
> Before a recent change, mask was a 64-bit number.  The second part of
> the if statement would always resolve to true, since the 32-bit bitop
> would never equal the 64-bit mask.  So the second part of the if
> statement was ineffectual up until very recently.

It was always effectual for IO where the mask is 0xffff.

Ivan.
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