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In article <42eu5d$jmq$1@mhafm.production.compuserve.com>,
Edward Diener  <70304.2632@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>>Thus, if 0x80000000 (2147483648) can be represented correctly as
>>a long int---e.g., on a 64-bit machine where 0x80000000 is 
>>really
>>0x0000000080000000---its type is `long int', otherwise its type
>>is `unsigned long int'.
>
>I should have originally asked whether 0x80000000L was a long int 
>or an unsigned long int on a 32 bit machine ? Your answer tells 
>me that the type is an unsigned long int on a 32 bit machine 
>since the number is too big for a long int, whose maximum size on 
>a 32 bit machine is 0x7FFFFFFF . Thanks for your response.

Surely 0x80000000L is only too big for a long int on a 32 bit machine
if you intend it to be interpreted as a positive number?  It fits in a
32 bit signed int fine, and represents -2147483648.

John

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John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.