On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 07:40:45AM +0000, matthew green wrote:
> src/lib/libc/gen: unvis.c
>
> Log Message:
> cast "~0" to (size_t) when passing to a size_t taking function.
> fixes lint build errors.
Is that right? My C promotion rules are getting rusty...
~0 is of type 'int', 'size_t' is an unsigned type, if 'size_t' is
larger than 'int' isn't the convertion 'value preserving' rather
than 'sign preserving'?
So you need ~(size_t)0 if you want to generate the all 1's bit pattern?
David
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