Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL

[Ray Lee]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:58, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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.

K&R pre-ANSI (i.e., K&R first edition) allowed this. K&R second edition,
a.k.a. ANSI C clarifies this substantially, as per my previous two
messages on the topic.

> 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.

File a bug.

Ray

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