0xffffffff when BFD64

[Michael Meissner]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 12:50:17PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> One easy solution is to write '0xffffffffu', which is an explicitly
> unsigned constant.  There is some GCC warning flag which will complain
> about this, saying 'constant is so large it is unsigned'; it is turned
> on for GCC itself.

As I mentioned already, the 'u' suffix was created as part of the ANSI process
(pretty much at the same time the type were changed), and pre-ISO C compilers
like the SunOS compiler do not accept it.

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