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SubjectRe: WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:20:48PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > Umm. The WARN_ON() might actually get a "long long" value for all we know.
> > Ie it's perfectly possible that the WARN_ON might look like
> >
> > /* Must not have high bits on */
> > WARN_ON(offset & 0xffffffff00000000);
> >
> > which on a 32-bit pcc would apparently do the wrong thing entirely as it
> > stands now. No?
>
> Actually, because of the typeof in the powerpc WARN_ON, I think it
> would fail to build since we'd be passing a long long value to an
> inline asm, or at least I hope it would fail to build. :)


Turning the condition into an integer should work ...

#define NEW_WARN_ON(x) OLD_WARN_ON(!!(x))

Regards,
Joe

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