Re: drivers/char/sysrq.c

From: Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 10:03:53 EST


On Fri, 30 May 2003 16:44:55 +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
>
> In drivers/char/sysrq.c (2.4 and 2.5) we have :
>
> if ((key >= '0') & (key <= '9')) {
> retval = key - '0';
> } else if ((key >= 'a') & (key <= 'z')) {
>
> Shouldn't the "&" be (pedantically) "&&" ?

It is semantically the same. If you can show that gcc optimization
also creates the same assembler code, few people will object to a
patch.

Jörn

--
Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then
don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest.
-- Rob Pike
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