On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 04:19:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:05 PM Jonathan Neuschäfer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Contrary to the description, the first parameter (n) should not be > > passed as a pointer, but directly as an lvalue. This is possible because > > do_div is a macro. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <[email protected]> > > Thanks for your patch! > > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> > > Shouldn't the "semantics" at the top of include/asm-generic/div64.h be > updated, too?
Arguably, it's semantically close enough. I'm not sure.
> As this can't be expressed in a C function, perhaps that should be done
> using C++ syntax, like
>
> uint32_t do_div(uint64_t &n, uint32_t base)
> {
> ...
> }
That might confuse some people who aren't expecting C++ syntax.
I'll leave this as is, because I can't decide wether this is an
improvement.
Thanks,
Jonathan Neuschäfer
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