Re: compiler warnings and syscall macros

From: Tommy Reynolds
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 16:52:01 EST


Uttered Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spoke thus:

> Would it hurt anything if I put in an explicit cast, like this?
>
> __sc_ret = (unsigned long) -1;

Why not do the obvious:

__sc_ret = -1UL;

and use a proper constant?
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