Re: [repost w/ PATCH] Wrong initialization in mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqs()

Hi,

this is Linux, not software engineering 101.  0xffffffff is the bitpattern
for (int) -1 on all Linux platforms.  And this is even in i386-specific
code.

Yuck.

I still find the for() loop by far more clear, even with portability
set aside.  And is probably more efficient, too, since unlike memset()
it does not have to check for alignment constraints.

Anyway, I don't care how the bug is fixed in the end.

Regards,
Wolfram.


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