From: dfremlin AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu (John Fremlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: long long int assignments
Date: 10 May 1997 05:23:47 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT 3 DOT 89 DOT 9705081555 DOT A32279-0100000 AT alpha DOT hcst DOT com>,
Bryan Murphy <bryan AT hcst DOT com> posted:
>I have a sequence of assighments that follows like this:
>
>unsigned long long int millimeters = (unsigned long long int)-1;

[snip]

>Anyways, if I don't type cast centinal values when assigning them to
>long long int types, I get a warning telling me the value is out of
>range, yet the long long int receives the value fine.  Any reason why
>this happens and what can I do to stop the warnings short of typecasting
>every big assignment?

Append a "ull" (Unsigned Long Long) to each of your numbers i.e.:
        JohnsBirthdayRepeated = 198211101982111019821110ull;

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