Re: Recent change in tcp_output.c is surely wrong

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 04:32:12 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:19:20AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> var = CLEAR_BIT_31(var);
[...]
And who maintains the macros?

>
> everybody knows what you are doing without having to ask you....

I think "everybody" knew that, the original poster just pointed out that
the shift trick exploited undefined behaviour in ANSI-C, which is rather
irrelevant because the Linux kernel is not writen in ANSI-C.

-Andi

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