Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 13:49:38 EST


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:41:50AM -0700, tom st denis wrote:
> Um, actually "char" like "int" and "long" in C99 is signed. So while
> you can write
>
> signed int x = -3;
>
> You don't have to. in fact if you "have" to then your compiler is
> broken. Now I know that GCC offers "unsigned chars" but that's an
> EXTENSION not part of the actual standard.

------------------------------ snip -----------------------------
[#15] The three types char, signed char, and unsigned char
are collectively called the character types. The
implementation shall define char to have the same range,
representation, and behavior as either signed char or
unsigned char.35)
------------------------------ snip -----------------------------

> As for writing portable code, um, jacka#!, BitKeeper, you know, that
> thingy that hosts the Linux kernel? Yeah it uses LibTomCrypt. Why not
> goto http://libtomcrypt.org and find out who the author is. Oh yeah,
> that would be me. Why not email Wayne Scott [who has code in
> LibTomCrypt btw...] and ask him about it?
>
> Who elses uses LibTomCrypt? Oh yeah, Sony, Gracenote, IBM [um Joy
> Latten can chip in about that], Intel, various schools including
> Harvard, Stanford, MIT, BYU, ...

Tons of people use windows aswell. You just showed that you don't know
C well enough, so maybe someone should better do an audit for your code ;-)
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