Re: [PATCH] Remove pointless <0 comparison for unsigned variable infs/fcntl.c

[Jesper Juhl]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> > if pid_t is 16 bit, then the value can never be greater than 0xffff but, if
> > pid_t is greater than 16 bit, say 32 bit, then the argument "a" could very
> > well contain a value greater than 0xffff and then the comparison makes
> > perfect sense.
> 
> If pid_t is 32-bit, then what's wrong with the value being greater than
> 0xFFFF?  After all, if pid_t a 32-bit number, that implies that 32-bit values
> are acceptable.
> 
My understanding of it is that it was just an example of how code that 
generated warnings about limited range of datatype could actually be 
perfectly fine.


--
Jesper Juhl

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