Jeroen Demeyer schrieb am 06.09.2015 um 10:54: > On 2015-09-05 17:09, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> It now appends the 'U' suffix only to literals that are used in an unsigned >> context (e.g. assignment to unsigned variable), and additionally appends >> L/LL suffixes for integers that might exceed the int/long limits. > > Why not just keep it simple, append no suffixes and let the C/C++ compiler > deal with it? No heuristics needed. > > More concretely, I would handle this as follows: > * do not use any L or U suffix > * write all DEF constants as hexadecimal in the source code > > This way, the C/C++ compiler will determine the integral type.
I previously tried that with decimal literals and got warnings in gcc. Hadn't tried hex literals. > It will use > the first type in the following list which can represent the number: > - int > - unsigned int > - long > - unsigned long > - long long > - unsigned long long > > The reason for the *hexadecimal* constants is that the unsigned types are > not tried for decimal constants. That's interesting to know (you were quoting 6.4.4 of the C standard apparently). C - what a language full of wonders. https://github.com/cython/cython/commit/37f6b07978d3ca1b41aae4d1dd747ee63e3b9265 Thanks! Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
