on 02/07/2013 20:52 Attilio Rao said the following: > I was just pointing out that the real bug is not in the subtraction > itself but on the hogticks comparison. > This is because hogticks is not an absolute measurement but it > represents really a ticks difference. > In my opinion we should define hogticks as an unsigned int and add a > small comment saying that it is a differential. > This will fix the issue.
I think that my original suggestion is equivalently well if not more obvious. This is a common knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_number_arithmetic#General_Solution distance = (signed)( i1 - i2 ) -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
