[PATCH] ppc64: fix lparcfg datatype and bad math.

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Tue Sep 13 10:00:05 EST 2005


will schmidt writes:

> This patch fixes two problems with the string parsing code out of lparcfg.
> First, it changes the data type of a char array to be unsigned.  This 
> prevents some nasty behavior when the code is built with -fsigned-char, 

OK, making it explicitly unsigned char is good, but why would we ever
build the kernel with -fsigned-char?

Paul.



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