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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] Store max number of objects in the page struct.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:27:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od975tgc.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080321152407.b0fbe81f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

>> +#define USHRT_MAX	((u16)(~0U))
>> +#define SHRT_MAX	((s16)(USHRT_MAX>>1))
>> +#define SHRT_MIN	(-SHRT_MAX - 1)
>
> We have UINT_MAX and ULONG_MAX and ULLONG_MAX.  If these were actually
> UNT_MAX, ULNG_MAX and ULLNG_MAX then USHRT_MAX would make sense.
>
> But they aren't, so it doesn't ;)
>
> Please, let's call them USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN.

SHRT_MIN, SHRT_MAX, and USHRT_MAX are the spellings used by
<limits.h> required in ISO-conforming C implementations.  That
doesn't mean that the kernel has to use those spellings, but it
does mean that those names are widely understood by C
programmers.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-22  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080317230516.078358225@sgi.com>
     [not found] ` <20080317230529.474353536@sgi.com>
2008-03-18 18:54   ` [patch 7/9] slub: Adjust order boundaries and minimum objects per slab Pekka Enberg
2008-03-18 19:00     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-19  1:04       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-19 15:20         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-20  6:44   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 18:32     ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found] ` <20080317230528.279983034@sgi.com>
2008-03-19  9:09   ` [patch 2/9] Store max number of objects in the page struct Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-19 17:49     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20  3:32       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 21:05         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 22:24         ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-22  3:27           ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
2008-03-24  1:22           ` [PATCH] Add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others Zhang, Yanmin
     [not found] ` <20080317230528.939792410@sgi.com>
2008-03-20  5:10   ` [patch 5/9] slub: Fallback to minimal order during slab page allocation Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 18:29     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21  0:52       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-21  3:35         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21  5:14           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-21  6:07             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21  8:23               ` Zhang, Yanmin
     [not found] ` <20080317230529.701336582@sgi.com>
2008-03-20  5:53   ` [patch 8/9] slub: Make the order configurable for each slab cache Zhang, Yanmin
2008-03-20 18:31     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20 23:57       ` Christoph Lameter

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