[Bug preprocessor/27195] hex and oct constants are converted to wrong type

["lukew at radterm dot com dot au" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Comment #7 from lukew at radterm dot com dot au  2006-10-27 03:51 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Subject: Re:  hex and oct constants are converted to wrong type
> 
> lukew at radterm dot com dot au wrote:-
> 
> > >   The resulting tokens compose the controlling constant expression which 
> > >   is evaluated according to the rules of 6.6. For the purposes of this 
> > >   token conversion and evaluation, all signed integer types and all 
> > >   unsigned integer types act as if they have the same representation as, 
> > >   respectively, the types intmax_t and uintmax_t defined in the header 
> > >   <stdint.h>.142)
> > > 
> > >   142) Thus, on an implementation where INT_MAX is 0x7FFF and UINT_MAX is 
> > >   0xFFFF, the constant 0x8000 is signed and positive within a #if 
> > >   expression even though it would be unsigned in translation phase 7.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't get it.
> > 
> > How can 0x8000 be signed AND positive when INT_MAX is a 16 bit integer?
> 
> Ask yourself what its type is.
> 

intmax_t and INTMAX_MAX is 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

0x8000000000000000 is unsigned

where as (INTMAX_MAX + 1) is signed and negative.

Which is fine.

Thanks Neil.


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