Re: drivers/char/sysrq.c

[J.A. Magallon]

On 05.30, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2003 16:44:55 +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> > 
> > In drivers/char/sysrq.c (2.4 and 2.5) we have :
> > 
> >         if ((key >= '0') & (key <= '9')) {
> >                 retval = key - '0';
> >         } else if ((key >= 'a') & (key <= 'z')) {
> > 
> > Shouldn't the "&" be (pedantically) "&&" ?
> 
> It is semantically the same.  If you can show that gcc optimization
> also creates the same assembler code, few people will object to a
> patch.
> 

I see a diff:
- & is bitwise and you always perform the op
- && is logical and gcc must shortcut it

I think people use & 'cause they prefer the extra argument calculation
than the branch for the shortcut (AFAIR...)

or not ?

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