Re: [PATCH] Avoid truncating to 'long' in ALIGN() macro

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Sat Nov 25 2006 - 18:05:20 EST


> Perhaps a better way to fix this is to use
> typeof() like other similar macros do.

I tried doing

#define ALIGN(x,a) \
({ \
typeof(x) _a = (a); \
((x) + _a - 1) & ~(_a - 1); \
})

but that won't compile because of <net/neighbour.h>:

unsigned char ha[ALIGN(MAX_ADDR_LEN, sizeof(unsigned long))];

gcc says:

/scratch/Ksrc/linux-merge/include/net/neighbour.h:104: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function

I guess that could be fixed by changing that declaration but now this
is starting to feel like early 2.6.20 material.

- R.
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