Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL

From: viro
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 01:50:18 EST


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:55:01AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2004, Ray Lee <ray-lk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Which means 0xdeadbeef is a perfectly valid literal for an unsigned int.
>
> Assuming ints are 32-bits wide.

ITYM "at least 32-bits wide".

> They don't have to be. They could be
> as narrow as 16 bits, in which case

... you would have no fscking chance to build Linux kernel on such platform
for $BIGNUM reasons.
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