Re: [pure-lang-users] C float

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:57 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Albert Graef wrote:
> >> Just pretend that it's an int in the extern declaration. That should 
> >> just work (FLW), even if you pass it a bigint (which gives you the 
> >> necessary range to represent all unsigned int values).
> > 
> > No, it doesn't right now. Only 'long' arguments allow a bigint parameter 
> > right now. But it's easy to extend this to the other C int types (char, 
> > short, int), I'm working on that.
> 
> Ok, I've implemented this, so if you need to pass an unsigned int 
> constant which is too big to be represented as a positive Pure int then 
> you can just pass a bigint instead. This works with all C int types now. 
> (In fact, since int constants are converted to bigints automatically 
> when they fall outside the int range, even something like foo 0xffffffff 
> will do the right thing.) For unsigned return values, you can use the 
> appropriate uint et al routines, as discussed previously.
> 
> I consider this fixed now. Cue the "Don't worry..." song again. ;-)

Happy +1 ;-)

e.r.