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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:51:17 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r236917 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <20120612115117.GB1372@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20120612114254.V1572@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201206112017.q5BKHKsW007722@svn.freebsd.org> <20120612114254.V1572@besplex.bde.org>

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:53:47PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > -        KASSERT(fd >=3D 0 && fd < fdp->fd_nfiles,
> > +        KASSERT((unsigned int)fd < fdp->fd_nfiles,
> >             ("file descriptor %d out of range (0, %d)", fd, fdp->fd_nfi=
les));
> > 	return ((fdp->fd_map[NDSLOT(fd)] & NDBIT(fd)) !=3D 0);
> > }
>=20
> This is backwards.  Apart from using the worst possible (most verbose)
> spelling of `unsigned', it uses a type hack manually optimize away the
> test for fd being < 0.  The compiler will do this "optimization"
> automatically if it is any good (or undo it if it is not), so all the
> hack does is obfuscate the test.  With the verbose spelling of u_int,
> it even takes more space.

Well, to be honest I presonally would prefer explicit check for fd being
less than 0, but my impression was that using cast is the most popular
way and I wanted this check to be consistent across our source tree.

Feel free to change it.

BTW. I really dislike using 'unsigned' with omitted 'int'. u_int is fine.

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