From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [2.4.23-pre3] Possible bug in fs/buffer.c
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:39:49 +0200
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       Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Am Dienstag, 9. September 2003 02:53 schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 17:04, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> My error - its ~0 that is unreliable.

Uh-oh:

eike@bilbo:/mnt/kernel/linux-2.4.23-pre3> grep -r "~0[^xX]" *| wc -l
    713

Eike
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