RE: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] bits: Introduce fixed-type BIT

[David Laight]

..
> >> +#define BIT_U8(b)		((u8)(BIT_INPUT_CHECK(u8, b) + BIT(b)))
> >> +#define BIT_U16(b)		((u16)(BIT_INPUT_CHECK(u16, b) + BIT(b)))
> >> +#define BIT_U32(b)		((u32)(BIT_INPUT_CHECK(u32, b) + BIT(b)))
> >> +#define BIT_U64(b)		((u64)(BIT_INPUT_CHECK(u64, b) + BIT(b)))
> >
> >considering that BIT defines are always referred to unsigned
> >types, I would just call them

Except that pretty much as soon as you breath on them
the u8 and u16 types get converted to int.
If you want them to be an unsigned type then you need
to cast them to (unsigned int).

	David

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