Re: [Nasm-devel] testing DB/DD and friend sizes

[Cyrill G. <gor...@gm...>]

[anonymous coward - Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:26:29AM +0200]
| > | DB = -127...255
| > I suppose you meant [-128;255].
| 
| Yes.
| 
| > I find Peter's functions clean/elegant way indeed (in
| > which I never doubt :).
| 
| hpa wrote:
| > The only issue is that for bytes == 8 some compilers
| > will warn.
| 
| It is undefined behavior (see e.g. C99 6.5.7 paragraph
| 3 sentence 3), which a portable program should avoid.
|

Which could be easily withdrawn by using addition,
ie instead of (1<<8) we will use (1<<7)+(1<<7).

Thanks for comments!

	-- Cyrill