Work-around for bug in ancient SPARC Sun C compiler
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Mon Feb 11 05:13:00 GMT 2002
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:47:30AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> +/* Some ancient Sun C compilers would not take such hex constants as
> + unsigned, and would end up sign-extending them to form an offsetT,
> + so use these constants instead. */
> +#define U0xffffffffl ((((unsigned long)1 << 16) << 16) - 1)
> +#define U0x80000000l ((((unsigned long)1 << 16) << 15))
I think the defines would look better without the trailing 'l', and
you need a space after the cast to meet GNU coding guidelines.
Otherwise OK.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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