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From: jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin)
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Subject: Re: THINK C bug
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Date: 7 Feb 90 16:37:02 GMT
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In article <6661@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) writes:
>I'm using THINK C 4.0 and it won't accept the constant -2147483648 but it
>does accept -2147483647 and 2147483647.  This value does fit in a long.
>Curiously, it does accept 0x80000000 and -2147483647 - 1.
>
>Isn't this a bug or am I going to be called bunky?

Have a look at the manual, page 457, under the "constant too large"
error message explanation.  Evidentally, all integer constants must
have an *absoulte value* less than or equal to (2^31) - 1.

-- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College