On Thursday 27 October 2005 09:37 pm, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:22:40PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 22:31, Nick Glencross wrote: > > >There are a few cases of -1 being assigned to unsigneds. Anyone know > > >if that's deliberate? > > > > Yup. Some special out-of-band values. > > I suspect that gcc4 will give a warning on that. Wouldn't UINT_MAX or > ULONG_MAX be slightly more correct?
or ~0U / ~0UL. Again pretty much the same thing, but it shouts "magic value" loudest to me. Andrew
