On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 17:03 +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Account for properties when a and/or b are 0:
> gcd(0, 0) = 0
> gcd(a, 0) = a
> gcd(0, b) = b
> 
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <d...@gnu.org>
> ---
>  lib/gcd.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/gcd.c b/lib/gcd.c
> index cce4f3c..7e163c6 100644
> --- a/lib/gcd.c
> +++ b/lib/gcd.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
>  {
>       unsigned long r;
>  
> +     if (!a || !b)
> +             return a | b;

This seems overkill

> +
>       if (a < b)
>               swap(a, b);

better here to :
        if (!b)
                return a;

>       while ((r = a % b) != 0) {


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