On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:29 PM, malc <av1...@comtv.ru> wrote: >> So what I meant is rather G_MAXUINT32. > > Just leave it as is, it's perfectly fine.
But it's not convenient to fit into a regular integer, as the number of steps is 2^32 + 1. Why is it preferrable this way rather than a MAXUINT? I must be missing something. Hardware range for example is usually 0...2^nbits-1 -- Marc-André Lureau