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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Kill div64.h dupes, parenthesize do_div() macro params
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On Wednesday 02 July 2003 09:19, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:52:17AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > + * static inline uint32_t do_div(uint64_t &n, uint32_t base)
>
> c++ ;)

Oops! Shall I send a new patch? ;-)

> > +# error do_div() does not yet support the C64
>
> ;)
>
> this new version looks good to me since it will fix bugs and it's not
> only a cleanup avoiding code duplication. thanks.

The previous patch was not just a cleanup: it actually added parenthes
that were missing around parameters in many do_div() variants. Guess
what happened when shrink_slab() did this (pages = 0):

do_div(delta, pages + 1); /* Ouch! */

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