The current implementation of get_user_desc() sign extends
the return value because of integer promotion rules. For
the most part, this doesn't matter, because the top bit of
base2 is usually 0. If, however, that bit is 1, then the
entire value will be 0x... which is probably not what
the cal
On 10/21/2009 09:40 AM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
The current implementation of get_user_desc() sign extends
the return value because of integer promotion rules. For
the most part, this doesn't matter, because the top bit of
base2 is usually 0. If, however, that bit is 1, then the
entire value wi
The current implementation of get_user_desc() sign extends
the return value because of integer promotion rules. For
the most part, this doesn't matter, because the top bit of
base2 is usually 0. If, however, that bit is 1, then the
entire value will be 0x... which is probably not what
the cal