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From: meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix/ST cc peculiarity
Message-ID: <257@cstw01.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 11:47:59 GMT
Reply-To: meulenbr@cst.UUCP ()
Organization: Centre for Software Technology, Philips Eindhoven
Lines: 25

Hi!

I noticed the following problem in the minix st C compiler.
Given the following program:
#define SOMETHING -32768
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	printf("%d\n", SOMETHING);
}

The result is, that -1 is printed.
Thing work well for -32767.
Also defining SOMETHING as (int)(-32768L) works fine.

This is obviously some conversion problem within the compiler.

I have not checked things for MINLONG etc.

by the way: don't use floats or doubles; they don't work.
-- 
Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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