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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:52:47AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The compiler has ((int)-1) and then has to promote it to ULL.  If it does
> the conversion to unsigned before the conversion to long long, we lose. 
> But it doesn't, and I couldn't immediately find a spec which justfies this
> behaviour.

If it works with gcc, it's good enough for me.


-- wli