integer

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 23, 2000, Nestor Alvarez <nestor@computec.com> wrote:

>  int i=-2147483648;

> "warning: decimal integer constant is so large that it is unsigned"

> I think this is a bug

Nope, it's correct.  According to the C standard, `-' and `2147483648'
are two separate tokens, and the second one is so large that it is
unsigned.  That's why INT_MIN, for example, is defined as (-INT_MAX-1).

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