Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:22:27 -0400
From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an
 unsigned integer
Message-ID: <20120821212227.GA14194@umich.edu>
References: <20120821212910.GD18637@fieldses.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20120821212910.GD18637@fieldses.org>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 589
Lines: 16

J. Bruce Fields wrote:

  From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
  
  I've seen a couple examples recently where we've gotten this wrong.
  Maybe something like this would help?  Is there some better way?
  
  (Approximation due to Jim Rees).

Please add Suggested-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>.  I'm thinking of
patenting the algorithm.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/