Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Replaced locks with lock guard macros

[Daniel Brodsky]

>
> There may be ways to rewrite that expression to avoid triggering the
> warning on a 32-bit platform.  Untested, but does this help:
>
> if (sizeof(mask) > 4 && mask <= 0xffffffffu) {
>
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> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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Unfortunately, the compiler still catches that the statement is always
true for 32-bit.
An alternative might be to convert cases like this to a macro instead,
which doesn't
cause any errors.