Re: [PATCH] s390 (7/13): gcc 3.3 adaptions.

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 24 February 2003 23:21:44 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> COUNT is constant and COUNT < INT_MAX. gcc can cast the constant bound
> to the variable's type to fix this problem.

Ok, Adrians example proved this approach stupid. But the one below
remains useful and catches one example, but not the other.

> Or, gcc can see that i starts with 0, it's value monotonously
> increases and will never wrap around due to COUNT < INT_MAX. Not a
> cheap test, but still possible.

Jörn

-- 
ticks = jiffies;
while (ticks == jiffies);
ticks = jiffies;
-- /usr/src/linux/init/main.c