Re: [2.4.23-pre3] Possible bug in fs/buffer.c

[J.A. Magallon]

On 09.08, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> It's neither ugly, nor bogus.  The only 100% reliable way to assign the
> >> maximum value to an unsigned integer is to use -1.
> >
> > Its not 100% reliable either 8).
> 
> Could you please elaborate?  Casting -1 to an unsigned type is guaranteed
> to yield the maximum value for that type, at least since C89, but I think
> even K&R C did get it right.
> 

Would not be much cleaner to do use ~0UL ?

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