Possible integer overflow in mach-bcmring with FPGA11107

Jiandong Zheng jdzheng at broadcom.com
Mon Apr 23 16:19:29 EDT 2012


On 4/23/2012 5:43 AM, Christian Dietrich wrote:
>
> This seems totally innocent, but when doing the caluculation for
> rate_hz by hand (or python) the result is slighly bigger than
> 2^32-1. Therfore an integer overflow should occur and the rate_hz rate
> will be far too low. It may be that there is a sanity check in
> hardware, but i don't know the used hardware at all.
>
Hi Christian,

Yes. This is a problem. I will cleanup fpga11107 code including this soon.

Thanks,
JD




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