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On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:03:38PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:46:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
> > In alpha where sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(double) == 8:
> >
> > imprecision=18446744073709552000.0 max=lu
> > imprecision == (double) max
>
> ^ eh?
'%llu' !~ /ANSI C/ # :-)
With %lu:
imprecision=18446744073709552000.0 max=18446744073709551615
imprecision == (double) max
> > You can see how the low order bits fade into garbage...
>
> so both == aren't true? good.
>
> > (btw, fwiw, long long is still thought to be a non std language extension,
> > so in the actual test we should use UV)
>
> I was doing so. It's just clearer for the test case to use the compiler's
> types.
>
> As I have been taught by rote by someone who likes ANSI C,
> long long breaks utterly the commitment that ANSI C (1989) makes that
> long is the longest integer type.
> and therefore should never be allowed to exist.
> (He's an idealist. His opinion is that if you need 64 bits define a new
> ABI where sizeof int is 4, sizeof long is 8. If your programs break at
That is exactly what Digital did with Alpha :-)
> this point, then fix 'em. They're making unwarranted assumptions and are
> not portable)
>
> [OK, I'm not asking to be told how many programmer years of toil it would take
> to recode all programs to cope with sizeof long increasing, versus just
> defining long long to be longer than long. We both realise that's why long
> long exists]
I do not understand that argument since it adding long long only
*adds* the amount of broken code, both in absolute and in relative terms.
But that's not a problem for us to fix. Configure divines IV and UV
for us and that's what we should use.
> is it safe to assume that the macros Strtol and Strtoul point to long long
> versions if IV/UV are long long?
Yes. If it is not safe we fix them until they are safe.
> Nicholas Clark
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