Hi Michael, I just found this ambiguities in stdint.h(0p) (from package man-pages-posix-2003a on a current Gentoo system): "An N-bit signed type has values in the range -2**N-1 or 1-2**N-1 to 2**N-1-1, while an N-bit unsigned type has values in the range 0 to 2**N-1." IMHO this should be "to (2**N-1)-1" for signed ints, and "to (2**N)-1" for unsigned. Yet I'm not sure about the precedence of the ** operator, as it is not defined for C/C++, so some more parenthesis around the exponents should make this clear. Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html