Re: ahc_linux_map_seg() compile/style/data corruption fixes

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Tue, 13 May 2003 23:28:31 -0700


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:18:57AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>> This was obvious from code inspection.

>> ISTR a debate where it was claimed the constant would be implicitly
>> promoted.

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:26:48AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> Promotion to long is all that is guaranteed at least up to C89. I
> don't think that C99 has changed this. The use of ULL in the code
> is required.

I thought they were wrong too, hence the patch. =)

-- wli
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