Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:38:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL |
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David Eger wrote:
> Is there a reason to add the 'L' to such a 32-bit constant like this? > There doesn't seem a great rhyme to it in the headers... > > -dte
Well if you put the 'name' so we could search for the reason..... It probably is used for magic to initialize long-words. Without the L, you may get a 'C' warning error because numbers default to 'int'.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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