[PATCH v2] gas: sframe: use standard min/max integer constants

Jens Remus jremus@linux.ibm.com
Tue Jan 13 12:25:25 GMT 2026


On 1/13/2026 11:03 AM, Indu Bhagat wrote:
> On 1/9/26 3:26 AM, Jens Remus wrote:
>> Replace the use of custom VALUE_{8|16|32|64}BIT constant definitions
>> with the standard INT{8|16|32|64}_{MIN|MAX} ones from stdint.h.
>>
>> Besides improving readability this also fixes the issue that the
>> smallest representable signed 8/16/32-bit integer value was
>> erroneously sized as the next larger integer type.  For example
>> get_offset_size_in_bytes (INT8_MIN) returned 2 instead of 1, due
>> to INT8_MIN (= -128) != -VALUE_8BIT (= -127):
>>
>>    (gdb) call get_offset_size_in_bytes (-127)
>>    $1 = 1
>>    (gdb) call get_offset_size_in_bytes (-128)
>>    $2 = 2
>>
>> gas/
>>     * gen-sframe.c (VALUE_8BIT, VALUE_16BIT, VALUE_32BIT,
>>     VALUE_64BIT): Remove.
>>     (get_offset_size_in_bytes): Use standard min/max integer
>>     constants.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> LGTM.

Thank you for the review!  Committed to mainline.

Regards,
Jens
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