Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sizedintegers

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 01:22:51 EST


Al Viro wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:43:22PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
+#define S64_C(x) x ## LL
+#define U64_C(x) x ## ULL
but can't we use the latter for all arches?

You really don't want to, as the whole point is that you want it to match what u64/s64 is defined as, in order to avoid spurious warnings.

Excuse me, in which contexts? Where does replacement of explicitly long
constant with explicitly long long one generate warnings on a host that has
range(long) equal to range(long long)?

printf, for example.

-hpa
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