I just wanted to share a hard to discover bug with other newcomers just
so they stay aware...
It makes sense that on the Palm, ints are 16-bit, not 32-bit.
But what I didn't catch is that in macros, such as:
#define MY_FLAG (32768 << 256)
UInt32 flags |= MY_FLAG;
Everything will act like it's working OK -> in fact, all the normally
"integer math" functions such as (a << b) still work in 32-bits.
But the #defines don't. The #define above will only contain the low
word of the value, and since you can't see the value of a define in the
debugger, all you notice is that values and branches aren't working
right.
The best way I found around this was just to check the USE 4 BYTE INTS
option.
Cheers!
- Jeff
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