Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix abs() macro to work with types wider than int

[Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:23:39 +0200 Jiri Bohac wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any reason to use an explicit int instead of a typeof in
> > the abs() macro? The current implementation will return bogus
> > results when used with longs.
> >     
>
> I think it's like it is just to be consistent with abs() in C,
> which also contains labs() and llabs().
>   
We actually had labs() before (few months ago), but since it was not 
used, and if it would it seemed better to just fix abs(), it was 
removed. So I think this is the appropriate way to go.
>   
> > How about changing the int to a typeof like this?:
> >
> >
> >
> > Fix the abs() macro to work with wider types than int.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/include/linux/kernel.h
> > +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/linux/kernel.h
> > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ extern int cond_resched(void);
> >  #define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0)
> >  
> >  #define abs(x) ({				\
> > -		int __x = (x);			\
> > +		typeof(x) __x = (x);			\
> >  		(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
> >  	})
> >  
> >
> >
> >     
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