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SubjectRe: Result of compiling with `-W'
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:20:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > /* Register devices */
> > - if ((card->audio1_num = register_sound_dsp(&emu10k1_audio_fops, -1)) < 0) {
> > + if ((signed long)(card->audio1_num = register_sound_dsp(&emu10k1_audio_fops, -1)) < 0) {
>
> Fix the type of card->foo_num to be signed instead - the fix is right.
>

I disagree here. If you enumerate things, you have zero or more
of them. _Never_ owe you (as the kernel) somebody a soundcard ;-)

So fix is:

signed long ret = register_sound_dsp(&emu10k1_audio_fops, -1);
if (ret < 0) {
/* Error handling or jump to it */
} else {
card->audio1_num = ret;
};

This is _always_ the safe variant, when you like to indicate
errors as negative values, but positive values as the "real"
return values.

Otherwise you have to check for "< 0" every time you look at the
signed variable (if you are a clean coder ;-)).

Regards

Ingo Oeser
--
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<esc>:x

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