Måns Rullgård wrote:
"Ronald S. Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c.old       16 Sep 2004 22:53:27 
-0000      1.2
+++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c   29 Mar 2005 20:30:23 -0000
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
        dri_data[2] = 0x00;
        dri_data[3] = 0x04;
        dri_data[4] = ptr->dri >> 8;
-       dri_data[5] = ptr->dri * 0xff;
+       dri_data[5] = ptr->dri & 0xff;

Hey, that's a nice obfuscation of a simple negation.

It's not a negation. This statement always assigns zero to dri_data[5] if dri_data is char[]. Looks like gcc isn't catching this problem.

BTW, when assigning to a char type, is the masking really necessary at
all?  I can't see that it should make a difference.  Am I missing
something subtle?

Well, it's a matter of readability mostly. For now at least, when char is always 8 bytes...

/mjt
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