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From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, tomstdenis@yahoo.com,
	eger@havoc.gtf.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:12:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1089180777.4373.186.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orisd0qrxi.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:58, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Are you sure?  I've seen K&R C compilers for 32-bit platforms in which
> 0xdeadbeef had type *signed* int, as opposed to unsigned int.

K&R pre-ANSI (i.e., K&R first edition) allowed this. K&R second edition,
a.k.a. ANSI C clarifies this substantially, as per my previous two
messages on the topic.

> I thought the preference for an unsigned type in this case was
> introduced in ISO C90, but it might as well have been a bug in that
> compiler.  Although I'm told other compilers display similar behavior.

File a bug.

Ray


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-07  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-07  2:05 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL Ray Lee
2004-07-07  3:02 ` viro
2004-07-07  5:58   ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-07  6:12     ` Ray Lee [this message]
2004-07-07  5:55 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-07  6:08   ` Ray Lee
2004-07-07  6:48   ` viro
2004-07-07 17:58     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-12 17:31   ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-07  7:30 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-07-07 14:34   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-07-12 17:50   ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-06 21:56 David Eger
2004-07-07  0:06 ` tom st denis
2004-07-07  3:00   ` viro
2004-07-07 11:10     ` tom st denis
2004-07-07 14:22       ` viro
2004-07-07 18:47         ` tom st denis
2004-07-07 16:30       ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-07-07 18:41         ` tom st denis
2004-07-07 18:47           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-07 18:53             ` tom st denis
2004-07-07 23:17               ` Harald Arnesen
2004-07-08  6:15               ` David Weinehall
2004-07-08 17:16           ` Horst von Brand
2004-07-10  1:52           ` Andrew Rodland
2004-07-07  0:38 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-07  4:52   ` David Eger
2004-07-07 11:40     ` Richard B. Johnson

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