Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  7, 2004, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:05:01PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
>> [1] "The great thing about standards is that there are so many
>> of them to choose from."  Wish I could remember who said
>> that.

> AST and in this case it actually doesn't apply - everything from K&R
> to C99 is in agreement here.

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.  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.

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