Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix CPU bitmask truncation | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Date | 20 Dec 2002 10:23:17 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 04:17, Andreas Schwab wrote: > This is useless. Assigning -1 to any unsigned type is garanteed to give > you all bits one, and with two's complement this also holds for any signed > type.
Only if the -1 is the same size as the unsigned type. Otherwise it will be 0-extended.
J
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