[coreboot] Incorrect casting in romcc.

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Sep 12 17:03:35 CEST 2008


ron minnich wrote:
> >> In the light of all this, I mean to have found a bug in romcc,
> >
> > No doubt.

(Yes, doubt.)


> > Did your research so far allow you to also suggest a fix?
> 
> romcc is end of life and unmaintained for many years now.
> 
> I think it is a mistake to change something this fundamental unless
> you can test it across platforms. There may be code out there that
> depends on this bug ....

That is a really good point.


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > did you by a chance confused '&' and '&&" as in your examples?
> 
> I believe Andriy is right. The expected outcome of the calculation
> above is indeed 1.

I agree. Well done noticing the extra &!


//Peter




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