Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/string

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:51:35AM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
> Log Message:
> Bitwise operations on signed types are well-defined if the values
> happen to be positive, and indeed the values here were guaranteed
> to be positive, but some compilers complained anyway, so convert
> the bitwise operations to arithmetic operations.

In that case use an explicit cast to the unsigned type. What you did is
penalize the code for no good reason.

Joerg