Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2003 00:13:59 +0200 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.23-pre3] Possible bug in fs/buffer.c |
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On 09.08, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > > On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> It's neither ugly, nor bogus. The only 100% reliable way to assign the > >> maximum value to an unsigned integer is to use -1. > > > > Its not 100% reliable either 8). > > Could you please elaborate? Casting -1 to an unsigned type is guaranteed > to yield the maximum value for that type, at least since C89, but I think > even K&R C did get it right. >
Would not be much cleaner to do use ~0UL ?
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