On Wed, Oct 28 2015, Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> Hi Linus, > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, at 10:39, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again. > > I don't want to give up on that this easily: > > In future I would like to see an interface like this. It is often hard > to do correct overflow/wrap-around tests and it would be great if there > are helper functions which could easily and without a lot of thinking be > used by people to remove those problems from the kernel. I agree - proper overflow checking can be really hard. Quick, assuming a and b have the same unsigned integer type, is 'a+b<a' sufficient to check overflow? Of course not (hint: promotion rules). And as you say, it gets even more complicated for signed types. A few months ago I tried posting a complete set of fallbacks for older compilers (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/19/358), but nothing really happened. Now I know where Linus stands, so I guess I can just delete that branch. Rasmus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html