Re: [2.4.23-pre3] Possible bug in fs/buffer.c

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> It's neither ugly, nor bogus.  The only 100% reliable way to assign the
> maximum value to an unsigned integer is to use -1.

Its not 100% reliable either 8). Properly you should use the limits.h
values. The kernel assumes 2's complement so just adding a cast would
probably keep gcc happy

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