Re: [PATCH 2/9] drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c: Correct use of ! and &

From: Mark Pearson
Date: Fri Feb 29 2008 - 13:06:59 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Seems an odd way of doing:
>>
>> led_out ^= 0x01;
>
> It does.
>
>> It this due to some optimisation?
>
> Surely not ;)
>
;) Thought so - one doesn't like to be too presumptuous ;)

> That code has been there for many years.
>
> I changed the patch to this:
>
> --- a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c~drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and
> +++ a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
> @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ write_led(const char __user * buffer, un
> (led_out) ? (hotk->status | ledmask) : (hotk->status & ~ledmask);
>
> if (invert) /* invert target value */
> - led_out = !led_out & 0x1;
> + led_out = !led_out;
>
> if (!write_acpi_int(hotk->handle, ledname, led_out, NULL))
> printk(KERN_WARNING "Asus ACPI: LED (%s) write failed\n",
> _
>
>

Is the ! operator architecture/compiler dependent? or can one always say that
!NON_ZERO_VALUE == 0 and !0 == 1?

Cheers, Mark.
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