netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote on 08/05/2008 10:19:18 AM:

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> If seq1 = 0xffffff and seq2 = 0 (so seq1 > seq2), the difference is
> equal to 0xffffff, or -1 as a 32 bits signed number.

        In the sequence space, 0xffffffff is before 0 (by 1), so
before() should return true. In your example, you don't have enough
f's for it to be -1 as a signed number, so I'm assuming you mean
8 of them there. If you mean 6 f's, then the result is not -1, but the
positive number 0xffffff, which returns false.

                                                                +-DLS


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