Re: [PATCH 2/8] KVM: x86: cleanup kvm_apic_match_*()

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 - 09:28:51 EST




On 02/02/2015 15:26, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
>>> > > + return ((logical_id >> 4) == (mda >> 4))
>>> > > + && (logical_id & mda & 0xf);
> was merged as
>
> + return ((logical_id >> 4) == (mda >> 4))
> + && (logical_id & mda & 0xf) != 0;
>
> but it has to be parenthesized ('&&' has lower precedence than '!=').

Lower precedence means that the merged version is right (unless my brain
went bonkers, which I cannot exclude). "!=" has higher precedence and
thus it is implicitly parenthesized.

In fact the first comparison could have its parentheses removed as well.

Paolo
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