Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 19:56:54 EST


On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 13:30 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> I'll stop making inane arguments if you stop bashing arguments I
> didn't make. :) I said the helpers were useful for multiplication (by
> which I meant both signed and unsigned) and, to a lesser extent, for
> signed addition and subtraction.
>
> I don't believe I even tried to justify usub_overflow as anything
> other than an extremely minor optimization that probably isn't
> worthwhile.

Also how much of the problem is simply that the function signature
(naming and choice of arguments) just plain sucks ?

Cheers,
Ben.

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