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On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:35, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > Just a simple fix to make the statements more readable. (instead of
> > "i < TIMEOUT > 0" the statement is divided into two, joined by &&.)
>
> Can you really DO (x < y > z) and have it work as an anded pair of
> comparisons? Maybe this is an addition to C that I am not aware of.
>
> I would expect (x < y > z) to be equivalent to ((x < y) > z).
Odd, this has been in the kernel ever since Linus started using BK. I didn't
check pre-BK. I wonder what the author intended to say. (I believe in the
((a<b) && (b>c)) theory.)
Jeff.
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