Re: type of decimal constants in msvc

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: type of decimal constants in msvc
Date	2025-12-22 05:05 -0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Em 19/12/2025 09:15, Keith Thompson escreveu:
>
> [...]
>
>>> gcc's warning for 18408377700990114895 (which is slightly smaller
>>> than 2**64) is "integer constant is so large that it is unsigned".
>>> This is *incorrect* (and I think it's been reported as a bug), but
>>> the incorrect wording of the warning is not a conformance issue.
>>
>> I am not understating why do you think this is a bug?
>> Because it should not compile?
>
> No, because the message is factually incorrect.

No, it isn't.  The message might be misleading but it isn't wrong.

> The integer constant 18408377700990114895 is not of any unsigned type.

The message doesn't say the constant has an unsigned type.  It says
only that the constant is unsigned.

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Re: type of decimal constants in msvc Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 08:43 -0300
  Re: type of decimal constants in msvc Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 04:15 -0800
    Re: type of decimal constants in msvc Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 09:49 -0300
      Re: type of decimal constants in msvc Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-12-19 12:26 -0800
        Re: type of decimal constants in msvc Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-12-22 05:05 -0800
          Re: type of decimal constants in msvc Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-12-22 12:01 -0800

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