Re: [PATCH] ext4: improve str2hashbuf by processing 4-byte chunks

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 20 2025, Theodore Tso wrote:

> Secondly, it's not that a promotion happens before "any" arithmetic.
> If we add two 8-bit values together, promotion doesn't happen.

That is not true.  Integer promotion is applied individually to each
operand independent of context.

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