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Re: Pass direct unsigned long long values to a function problems
- To: Emmanuel Poitier <epoitier at openlinksw dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Pass direct unsigned long long values to a function problems
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 01 Aug 2000 13:22:54 -0300
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <3986EF2F.C979F7B5@openlinksw.co.uk>
On Aug 1, 2000, Emmanuel Poitier <epoitier@openlinksw.co.uk> wrote:
> so I am confronted to a problem with GCC 2.95.2. The problem occured on
> x86 and PPC platforms (I suppose that it's can be reproduced on other 32
> bits architectures).
The problem is that the multiplication takes place before the
conversion to unsigned long long. If you want the result to be a long
long, one of the operands of the multiplication must be that wide.
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