------- Additional Comments From schlie at comcast dot net 2005-01-15 18:09 ------- (In reply to comment #4)
(again sorry), nor should ~0 be considred equivelent to -1, any more than any explicit non-signed constant like 0xFFFF for example be (as previously questioned), as such values only have equivelent representations if the constant's required representation precision happens to be the same as the targets specifed int type-sizes; therefore would not be reasonably target portable if treated otherwise. (assuming for the sake of argument if sizeof(int) = 2, sizeof(long) = 4): unsigned long = (assumed signed int compatibe) -1, long == 0xFFFFFFFF unsigend long = (assumed unsigned int compatible)~0, long == 0x000FFFF -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19457
