Re: [RFC v2 1/2] compiler: use compiler to detect integer overflows

[Sasha Levin]

On 11/29/2014 01:08 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Since we can't just change those to unsigned
> Sure we can. Just cast them. A signed start/len is bogus crap, it's a
> random wrong type.

But this is going on everywhere in fs/! It uses loff_t for pretty much anything,
even stuff which are obviously are unsigned (inode.i_size for example). Do you
think it's worth the effort to switch is all to unsigned?


Thanks,
Sasha
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