Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

[Al Slater]

use unsigned int x = 4294967294UL;
                               ^^

regards

Al
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of sam alexander
> Sent: 15 March 2002 07:16
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
>      The useless compiler warning is this:
> 
> warning:  decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned
> 
> I KNOW that it's unsigned, and it's supposed to be.  It's the 
> right hand 
> side of an initialization like this:
> 
> unsigned int x = 4294967294;
> 
> I'd just ignore it as a minor annoyance, but my boss insists 
> that I find a 
> way to silence it  (he doesn't know C himself).
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.  Please reply to my email as I'm not
> subscribed to the list...  P.S.  I already tried typecasting 
> the large 
> constant as an unsigned int, as if to tell the compiler that 
> I was well 
> aware it was too large to be signed, but that didn't help.
> 
> Sam
> 
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