long long availability in host compiler (Re: constant that doesn't fit in 32bits in alpha.c)

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@adacore.com
Fri Jun 15 19:10:00 GMT 2012


> It's true that this is a pedantic violation; but the point here is that
> there is no practical barrier to using 'long long'.  This code has been
> in the tree since 2007; so if there is some issue with it, it ought to
> have surfaced by now.

The whole compiler is written using HOST_WIDE_INT and the like, so using some 
external code that managed to escape a proper review before being merged in 
order to justify an incorrect usage is IMO short-sighted, to say the least.

-- 
Eric Botcazou



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