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From: andi@firstfloor•org (Andi Kleen)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH for -tip 1/2] kernel.h: add MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:27:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100822192705.GE1771@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100821142215.023431313@efficios.com>

> +/* Force a compilation error if condition is constant and not a power of 2 */
> +#define MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n)		\
> +	MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON((n) == 0 || (((n) & ((n) - 1)) != 0))

Looks super-ugly. IMHO just writing MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON(!n || n & (n - 1)) directly
would be clear enough. If you really think that's unclear define a generic
is_power_of_two() macro.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-22 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100821141750.770348530@efficios.com>
2010-08-21 14:17 ` [PATCH for -tip 1/2] kernel.h: add MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2 Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-21 18:26   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-08-21 18:40     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-21 19:44       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-08-22 19:27   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-08-22 19:38     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-22 20:16       ` Anca Emanuel
2010-08-22 21:03         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-21 14:17 ` [PATCH for -tip 2/2] Create generic alignment API (v9) Mathieu Desnoyers

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