Chip Coldwell wrote:
[snip]
> > printf("%016x\n", ~a);
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > outputs
> >
> > 00000000ffffffff
> >
> > on my i386-linux system.
>
> Strangely, this is actually "correct" behavior. Arguments on
> variable-length argument lists are implicitly "promoted" to unsigned
> int at the widest. See K&R 2nd ed. A6.1 and A7.3.2.
Ugh. Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware of it.
printf("%016Lx\n", ~a);
Produces the expected output. So it is actually an implementation
bug in binutils, which isn't fixable for 2.14 and earlier, because
those have to remain at K&R C level. The K&R requirement was only
recenly loosened.
Thiemo
