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Subject: Re: Outputting u64 word using printf?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:27:25 06/07/04

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On June 07, 2004 at 11:08:08, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 07, 2004 at 11:01:51, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On June 07, 2004 at 10:46:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>>>A smart compiler should understand that 1<<36 cannot mean 0 because in that case
>>>the programmer has no reason to write it in that way.
>>
>>Of course a programmer might have a reason to write it that way.
>
>He may write 1<<i when i may be 36 in part of the cases but I see no reason to
>write 1<<36 and not 0.

What people often tend to forget is that not only people write programs.
Programs write programs, too.  :-)

Tord



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