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From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] embarassing typo
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:07:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xu0mtzy1g.fsf@ford.inprovide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4249CFA1.7050907@tls.msk.ru>

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:

> Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> "Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net> writes:
>>
>>>--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c.old	16 Sep 2004 22:53:27 -0000	1.2
>>>+++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c	29 Mar 2005 20:30:23 -0000
>>>@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
>>> 	dri_data[2] = 0x00;
>>> 	dri_data[3] = 0x04;
>>> 	dri_data[4] = ptr->dri >> 8;
>>>-	dri_data[5] = ptr->dri * 0xff;
>>>+	dri_data[5] = ptr->dri & 0xff;
>> Hey, that's a nice obfuscation of a simple negation.
>
> It's not a negation.  This statement always assigns zero to
> dri_data[5] if dri_data is char[].

Sure about that?

__u16 i;
char c;
i = 1; c = i * 255; /* c = 255 = -1 */
i = 2; c = i * 255; /* c = 510 & 0xff = 254 = -2 */
...

Looks like negation to me.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-30  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 20:36 Ronald S. Bultje
2005-03-29 21:02 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-03-29 21:58   ` Michael Tokarev
2005-03-30  1:40     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-30  5:53       ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-30 23:38         ` John Pearson
2005-03-31  4:16           ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-30  2:07     ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2005-03-30  3:34       ` Phil Howard
2005-03-29 23:31 Vicente Feito
2005-03-30  3:35 ` Måns Rullgård

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