Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:02:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [resend][PATCH] avoid signed vs unsigned comparison in efi_range_is_wc() |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote: > > > > I send in the patch below a while back but never recieved any response. > > Now I'm resending it in the hope that it might be added to -mm. > > There are surely many warnings in the tree, hence I'm not really interested > in patches which only fix `gcc -W' warnings. >
Ok, in that case I won't bother you directly with such patches any more but instead let them trickle into maintainers trees when they will take them.
And yes, I know it's very trivial stuff and it doesn't make much of a difference to the "big picture", but my attitude towards that is that no issue is too small to be addressed, and since I'm not able to adress many of the larger issues I try to address the smaller ones that I'm able to handle, and when I run out of those I start nitpicking with the really trivial stuff (like gcc -W warnings) - all with the purpose of helping our kernel be the very best it can, even if my contribution might be very minor in some cases.
> How many are there? >
With the .config I use here a regular build gives me 10 warnings. A build with gcc -W of the same config gives me 100177 warnings.
> > It looks to me like a significantly large 'len' passed in could cause the > > loop to never end. Isn't it safer to make 'i' an unsigned long as well? > > Nope. All operations which mix signed and unsigned types promote the > signed type to unsigned. > Hmm, right, then the only bennefit of the patch as-is is to silence the gcc -W warning. But since it can be done 100% safe and the change to use an unsigned value for the counter is (at least to me) the logical and obviously correct thing to do, I still think the patch has merrit as a purely "for pedantic correctness" fix.
-- Jesper
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