Re: elevator-starvation-5 (request queue rewrite)

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 22:57:29 EST


On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >If you think a cast like "(signed)" will just cast to whatever signed type
>
> You guessed right my wrong thought.

The reason I guessed right was that I've had the same thinko.

It's now humans think, but it's not how a compiler works. The compiler
will just notice that it's missing a type, and use the C default type (ie
"int"). Oh, well..

                Linus

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