Re: [PATCH] OOM killer meets userspace headers

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:12:19AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:05:53AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> >>>+#define OOM_ADJUST_MIN (-16)
> >>>+#define OOM_ADJUST_MAX 15
> >>
> >>Why do you need the () for the -ves?
> >
> >
> >-16 is two tokens. Not that someone is going to do huge arithmetic with
> >OOM adjustments and screwup himself, but still...
> 
> How can they screw themselves up? AFAIKS, the - directly to the left
> of the literal will bind more tightly than any other valid operator.

Hmmm... c.l.c lists two reasons: a) =- being synonym of -= in pre-ANSI
days, and b) fat fingers

	#define EOF -1
	while ((c = getchar()) != 3 EOF)

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