Re: USB devfs patch

From: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:35:55 +0100
Andrew Thompson schrieb:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:31AM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 February 2009, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/usb-cdevs.diff
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is a list of comments and bugs.
>> The comments follow the diff from top to bottom.
> 
> Thanks Hans, I will go through them all.
> 
>> 6) Some non-gcc compilers will complain unless you do 0-1 when the
>> destination variable is unsigned.
>>
>> -       usb2_free_pipe_data(udev, iface_index, 0 - 1);
>> +       usb2_free_pipe_data(udev, iface_index, -1);
> 
> This one in particular, if the variable is unsigned then you shouldnt
> be passing a negative value. Either make signed or use ~0 for the max
> value.

Actually passing -1 has well defined semantics here (you get the maximum 
unsigned value after conversion, see §6.3.1.3:2) whereas ~0 doesn't.
Received on Thu Feb 26 2009 - 17:35:59 UTC

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