On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Kernel Apprentice <kernelapprentice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Kernel Apprentice > [snip] >>> I guess this should be 0100000000? >> >> That value overflows an int of size 4 bytes. > > How so? That value equals 16,777,216 and fits perfectly well into a > variable of type int. Is this something architecture-specific I'm > missing here? > > Same goes for the value quoted below. > Yes you are right, I was mislead in thinking there was no room left (and probably thinking too much in hex compared to octal which I don't use often), but there is enough for a few more flags before we hit the limit. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies