Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] i386: clean up user_mode macros

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:13 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I _really_ prefer
> 
> 	x != 0
> 
> over 
> 
> 	!!x

Good to hear.  This means that you should have no problem accepting my
previous patch for signal.c that changed the x ^ y to x != y.  And I
would also assume that you prefer x *= 2 over x <<= 1 (also since the
first person to show this example used x <<= 2. Right Lee? :-)

-- Steve


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