Re: [KJ][RFC][PATCH] BIT macro cleanup

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sat Feb 24 2007 - 22:40:21 EST


On Saturday 24 February 2007 06:11, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > The reason I don't like it with modulo is simply because it hides
> > potential bugs (when x is to big).
>
> That would be my only concern - losing compiler warnings.
>

I think most dangerous scenario is when both shift operands are not constant
but compiler will not help us in this case...

--
Dmitry
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