gcc 3.3: long long bug?

Mon Apr 7 14:36:00 GMT 2003

Anders Ã
dland <aaadland@atmel.no> writes:

|> 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?

Yes.  It tells the compiler that the constant is supposed to be of type
long long if it fits, and not of any narrower type (even if the constant
would fit there).  The type of an expression is determined only by looking
at the expression itself, ignoring the context.  The context can then
instruct the compiler to insert some conversions, but that happens only
afterwards.

Andreas.

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