On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:16:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Luc - I _suspect_ that what happens is that it now does that > > expr->ctype = base_type; > > in parse.c, which is correct in the long run, but AT THE TIME it is > parsed, the type hasn't been finalized yet. That's fine - we'll fix it > in-place eventually. > > HOWEVER. We also do this: > > if (ctype->bit_size == base_type->bit_size) > continue; > cast_value(expr, base_type, expr, ctype); > > and I think it's that 'cast_value()' that gets things wrong somehow. > It probably uses a 'unsigned int' either as the source or the > destination, or something. Thanks, Linus. That was the problem. get_longlong(old) has to have the original ctype. regards, dan carpenter
