Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Explicitly specify 'unsigned long long' for VHDX 64-bit constants

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 06:27:07PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> *Why* someone would want to use an integer constant with type
> "uint_least64_t" is a separate matter. One example follows -- assume all
> of the below:
> - suppose you write portable C99 source code,
> - hence you can't take uint64_t for granted,
> - you want a constant that's otherwise small enough to be represented as
> "int",
> - but you want that constant to trigger the "usual arithmetic
> conversions" (see 6.3.1.8) to evaluate expressions that the constant
> participates in in at least 64 bits,
> - you want the narrowest type that allows you to do this.

- You want the code to self-document its intentions.

I don't think ULL does that because it requires people to know that
ULL is at least 64 bits.

Rich.

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