But the two bit patterns are the same, and the comparison will promote them both to unsigned.

Try running the following program:

int main (int c, char **v)
{
    if (~0 != ~0U)
        printf("not equal as unknown");
    if ((int) ~0 != (int) ~0U)
        printf("not equal as ints");
    if ((unsigned) ~0 != (unsigned) ~0U)
        printf("not equal as unsigneds");
    if ((int) ~0 != (unsigned) ~0U)
        printf("not equal as int/unsigned");
    if ((unsigned) ~0 != (int) ~0U)
        printf("not equal as unsigned/int");
}

It prints nothing.

If one of the two numbers is 64-bit, your analysis works. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't think so...
Eddie



Ian McDonald wrote:
On 1/5/07, Eddie Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ian (catching up slowly slowly), here is a nit as nitty as they come.

This diff seems strange to me, since ~ actually does the same thing on
integers and unsigned integers.  (This code:

     printf("%u %u\n", ~0, ~0U);

will print the same thing twice.)

Perhaps dccplih_interval is a 64-bit number?  In which case you want to
say something like ~0ULL?

Eddie

Printing gives them the same result as you are using a %u mask. If you
do it with a %d mask you will get a different result.

And that is the issue dccp_lih_interval is unsigned 32 bit and ~0 is a
signed number and is large negative and they therefore can't be equal.

Ian
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