Re: [PATCH 2/9] drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c: Correct use of ! and &

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 29 2008 - 16:49:23 EST


On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:06:48 +0100
Mark Pearson <devnull.port@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> Seems an odd way of doing:
> >>
> >> led_out ^= 0x01;
> >
> > It does.
> >
> >> It this due to some optimisation?
> >
> > Surely not ;)
> >
> ;) Thought so - one doesn't like to be too presumptuous ;)
>
> > That code has been there for many years.
> >
> > I changed the patch to this:
> >
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c~drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and
> > +++ a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
> > @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ write_led(const char __user * buffer, un
> > (led_out) ? (hotk->status | ledmask) : (hotk->status & ~ledmask);
> >
> > if (invert) /* invert target value */
> > - led_out = !led_out & 0x1;
> > + led_out = !led_out;
> >
> > if (!write_acpi_int(hotk->handle, ledname, led_out, NULL))
> > printk(KERN_WARNING "Asus ACPI: LED (%s) write failed\n",
> > _
> >
> >
>
> Is the ! operator architecture/compiler dependent?

It shouldn't be.

> or can one always say that
> !NON_ZERO_VALUE == 0 and !0 == 1?
>

I always have ;) I expect it's in the C standard somewhere.
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