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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>
To: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: cgen@sourceware.org, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
	fche@sourceware.org,        Christian Svensson <blue@cmd.nu>,
	       Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>,
	       "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make large enum constants unsigned
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 21:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140522210621.GF4031@elastic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADzBsGN3U6a3BS5L7o7DYh_4KTghEXnB2UE0XKdNZrAN=A0p=g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi -

> >      (string-append "(signed int)" (number->string (cadr e)))
> [...]
> how would that be better than?
>       (string-append (number->string (cadr e)) "U")

It would be a closer match to expressing our desire to match C enum
typing, but I'd be fine with "U" suffixing too.


> I dismissed that, since it would create a lot larger diff in generated
> files than in the isolated cases where it's actually a problem. [...]

IMHO, that's not such a big deal.  We don't usually look closely at
the diffs of generated files, once the generating tools are trustworthy.


- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-22 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-22  5:30 Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22  6:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-22  6:52   ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22  7:10     ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22 13:33       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]       ` <5561926758764771034@unknownmsgid>
2014-05-22 14:10         ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22 16:14       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-22 15:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-05-22 17:34   ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22 21:06     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2014-05-22 21:42       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-22 22:20         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-05-29 20:09       ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-29 20:32         ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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