Re: [PATCH 2/2] test_firmware: silence underflow warning in test_dev_config_update_u8()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:18:56 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:54:58AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:38:26 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > We put an upper bound on "new" but we don't check for negatives.
> > 
> > U8_MAX has unsigned type, so `if (new > U8_MAX)' does check for negative.
> > 
> 
> No, doesn't work in this case.
> 
> #define U8_MAX          ((u8)~0U)
> 
> It would need to unsigned long for the type promotion to prevent
> negatives, but it starts as unsigned int, then unsigned char, which is
> type promoted to int.

OK.

> It would be more clear to just write it as:
> 
> #define U8_MAX 0xff

That doesn't work either.  Tricky.


#include <stdio.h>

typedef unsigned char u8;

#define U8_MAX 0xff

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long new;

	new = -20;

	if (new > U8_MAX)
		printf("over\n");
}