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introduce SIZE_MAX

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ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating
allocation size.  While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there
is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'.

This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve
portability and readability for allocation size validation.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Xi Wang
2012-05-31 16:26:04 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 15837294d4
commit a3860c1c5d
4 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#define LLONG_MAX ((long long)(~0ULL>>1))
#define LLONG_MIN (-LLONG_MAX - 1)
#define ULLONG_MAX (~0ULL)
#define SIZE_MAX (~(size_t)0)
#define STACK_MAGIC 0xdeadbeef