Re: [2.4.23-pre3] Possible bug in fs/buffer.c

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Montag, 8. September 2003 17:58 schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > It's neither ugly, nor bogus.  The only 100% reliable way to assign the
> > maximum value to an unsigned integer is to use -1.
>
> Its not 100% reliable either 8). Properly you should use the limits.h
> values. The kernel assumes 2's complement so just adding a cast would
> probably keep gcc happy

gcc didn't even find that. He complained about a line slightly above this one. 
In limits.h there is no value equal to -1UL.

Eike
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