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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types

From Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types
Date 2015-12-22 23:10 +0100
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On Tuesday 22 December 2015, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The min3() macro expects all arguments to be of the same type (or
> size at least). While two arguments are ints or u32s, one is size_t,
> which does not match on 64-bit architectures.
> Cast the size_t to u32 to make min3() happy. In this context here the
> length should never exceed 32 bits anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

Looks correct, but a bit ugly. Could we avoid the casts by using
temporary variables to keep the size_t based data?

	Arnd
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[RFC PATCH 0/5] arm64: prepare for basic Allwinner support Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2015-12-22 13:30 +0100
  [RFC PATCH 5/5] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2015-12-22 13:30 +0100
  [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2015-12-22 13:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 23:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types André Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2015-12-23 01:10 +0100
  [RFC PATCH 3/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix dev_dbg() output type Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2015-12-22 13:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix dev_dbg() output type Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 23:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix dev_dbg() output type Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 14:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix dev_dbg() output type Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
  [RFC PATCH 4/5] irqchip: sun4i: fix compilation outside of arch/arm Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2015-12-22 13:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] irqchip: sun4i: fix compilation outside of arch/arm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 23:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] irqchip: sun4i: fix compilation outside of  arch/arm Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100

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