Re: [PATCH] Avoid truncating to 'long' in ALIGN() macro

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:05:00PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:56:22 -0800
> 
> >  > Perhaps a better way to fix this is to use
> >  > typeof() like other similar macros do.
> > 
> > I tried doing
> > 
> > #define ALIGN(x,a)				\
> > 	({					\
> > 		typeof(x) _a = (a);		\
> > 		((x) + _a - 1) & ~(_a - 1);	\
> > 	})
> > 
> > but that won't compile because of <net/neighbour.h>:
> 
> You would need to also cast the constants with typeof() to.

Oh, for fsck sake...

	(typeof(x))((x + a - 1) & ~(a - 1ULL))
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