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Re: gcc 3.3: long long bug?


"A.R. Ashok Kumar" <ashokar at sankhya dot com> writes:

|> Hi,
|> 
|> On 7 Apr 2003, Anders [ISO-8859-1] Ådland wrote:
|> 
|> > I don't know anything about C standards, but why do we have to add the
|> > 'LL' suffix? Is it giving any additional information to the compiler?
|> 
|>   If you didn't specify 'L' or 'LL' suffix, then gcc will consider it
|>   as "integer" type (4 bytes). 

This is wrong.  The type of the constant will be the first to fit, using a
particular order.

Andreas.

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