Re: [TRIVIAL] Re: UP went into unexpected trashing

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:10:14 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
>
> Or add a check in there. I can't figure out a way to avoid the extra
> conditional branch anyway :)

I'd actually rather change the calling convention, and say that the only
valid test is for testing the return value "being in range".

And it's not strictly even a calling convention _change_ - it's always
been that way. See the original user, ie the minix filesystem:

if ((j = minix_find_first_zero_bit(bh->b_data, 8192)) < 8192) {
...

and it's really a documentation fix/update to just tell people about this.

Linus

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