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Re: 0xffffffff when BFD64

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: 0xffffffff when BFD64
From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:06:54 -0400
Cc: alan at linuxcare dot com dot au, ian at zembu dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004071354090.6764-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au> <200004071950.MAA00763@localhost.cygnus.com>

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 12:50:17PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> One easy solution is to write '0xffffffffu', which is an explicitly
> unsigned constant.  There is some GCC warning flag which will complain
> about this, saying 'constant is so large it is unsigned'; it is turned
> on for GCC itself.

As I mentioned already, the 'u' suffix was created as part of the ANSI process
(pretty much at the same time the type were changed), and pre-ISO C compilers
like the SunOS compiler do not accept it.

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References:
- 0xffffffff when BFD64
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: 0xffffffff when BFD64
  - From: Geoff Keating

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