Re: [KJ][PATCH] BIT macro cleanup

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:03:09AM +0530, Milind Arun Choudhary wrote:
> --- a/include/linux/bitops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
>   */
>  #include <asm/bitops.h>
>
> +#define BIT(nr)	(1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))

I think this would be a disaster because something like

	BIT(123)

would not even generate a warning.

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