> > (vlong)(...|((p)[3]<<24)) sign extends.  Casting the (p)[0]
> > to (ulong) has the effect of making the whole 32-bit expression
> > unsigned on 32-bit systems, but if ulong is 64 bits, then
> > you'll still sign-extend ((p)[3]<<24) during the convertsion
> > from int to ulong.
>
> i'd be careful to define ulong to be 32 bits for all plan 9 source
> including p9p (using `ulong == unsigned int' if necessary).
> otherwise quite a bit more will break.
> having fcall.h use u32int is fine too, of course, just to make the point 
> clearer

I started out doing ulong==unsigned int (cf. drawterm),
but that implies long==int, and I just couldn't bear to do
that for p9p.  I've been fixing problems as they come up.
Libmemdraw needed changes (which I expected), and
libmp did too (which I didn't).  Do you know of other code?

Russ

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