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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Constant overflow
Message-ID: <675@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:35:44 GMT
References: <2747@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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In article <2747@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:

| Try this one on your favorite C compiler.  So far, every one I've tried
| (including lint) has had no complaint:
| 
| 	long i = 9876543210L;
| 
| (The problem, of course, is that that number doesn't fit in 32 bits.  If
| your compiler has a word size of more than 32 bits, try something big
| enough to overflow whatever it uses.)

Ok, on the Data General C compiler, you get:

Error 104 severity 2 beginning on line 1 (Line 1 of file foo.c) 
long i = 9876543210L;
         ^
The int constant "9876543210L" could not fit into 32 bits without
a loss of precision.  The compiler truncated it on the left.
-- 
Michael Meissner, Data General.		Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner
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