Re: Suspected bug infilesystems (UFS,ADFS,BEFS,BFS,ReiserFS) relatedto sector_t being unsigned, advice requested

[Jesper Juhl]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> >
> >Also, I did a build of fs/reiserfs/ both with and without the above patch,
> >and then did a disassemble of inode.o (objdump -d) and compared the
> >generated code for reiserfs_get_block , and the generated code is
> >byte-for-byte identical in both cases, which means that gcc realizes that
> >the if() statement will never execute and optimizes it away in any case.
> >
> >
> I think you have done too much work.;-)
>
> Thanks though.
>
You are very welcome. I'm having great fun reading the code, looking
for potential problems, testing stuff etc..
I'm enjoying myself (and learning along the way, which is good :).

> The only reason we are slow in processing your patch and forwarding it
> to Linus is that the Russian Christmas is today....
>
Enjoy :-)


/Jesper Juhl

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