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Re: Qwery regarding the While() in gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red HatLinux 3.2.2-5)

From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
To: "Mario V Nigrovic; RVVK40" <Mario dot Nigrovic at Motorola dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:59:02 -0600
Subject: Re: Qwery regarding the While() in gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red HatLinux 3.2.2-5)
References: <20040225071231.18906.qmail@web8307.mail.in.yahoo.com><87u11fmv7d.fsf@student.uni-tuebingen.de> <403CCBA4.2010809@Motorola.com>

Hi Mario,

>Shouldn't ((unsigned _whatever_) i > -1) ALWAYS be true, regardless of the size of _whatever_?

No.

What shouldn't be done by programmers -- even though it's allowed by the C++ ISO 14882 specification -- is comingling signed and unsigned data types in operations. As a suggestion, in my opinion.

HTH,
--Eljay

References:
- Qwery regarding the While() in gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
  - From: Riyash M H
- Re: Qwery regarding the While() in gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
  - From: Falk Hueffner
- Re: Qwery regarding the While() in gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (RedHat Linux 3.2.2-5)
  - From: Mario V Nigrovic; RVVK40

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