Subject: Re: bug#17681: 24.3.91; "Arithmetic Error" in hide-ifdef mode when using shift operators

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 03:17:09 -0400

Luke Lee wrote:

>>I think he already sent me a patch fixing this problem
>
> Yes, I think my new patch fixed that problem.

Is this patch posted anywhere?

> However, if you're trying to hide jiffies.h it will eventually failed
> at some other place due to the "unsigned long" integer postfix (i.e.
> the "UL" in 100000UL), which hideif still consider it a "TODO".
>
> #define TICK_USEC ((1000000UL + USER_HZ/2) / USER_HZ)

When you say fail, do you mean it will give an error?
If so, why not ignore-errors around these evaluations?