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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Constant overflow
Message-ID: <1262@uw-nsr.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 19:27:56 GMT
References: <2747@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook 548-4386)
Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA
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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, here is the output I get on our DG MV/10000 running DG/UX 3.11 and
DG/UX C 3.90.14:

Script started on Sun Mar 13 11:18:20 1988
% cat main.c

main()
{
        long i = 9876543210L;
}

% cc main.c -o main
Error 104 severity 2 beginning on line 4 (Line 4 of file main.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.
 
% ^D
Script done at Sun Mar 13 11:19:06 1988
    
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