use unsigned int x = 4294967294UL;
^^
regards
Al
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> Of sam alexander
> Sent: 15 March 2002 07:16
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?
>
>
> Hi
>
> The useless compiler warning is this:
>
> warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned
>
> I KNOW that it's unsigned, and it's supposed to be. It's the
> right hand
> side of an initialization like this:
>
> unsigned int x = 4294967294;
>
> I'd just ignore it as a minor annoyance, but my boss insists
> that I find a
> way to silence it (he doesn't know C himself).
>
> Thank you very much in advance. Please reply to my email as I'm not
> subscribed to the list... P.S. I already tried typecasting
> the large
> constant as an unsigned int, as if to tell the compiler that
> I was well
> aware it was too large to be signed, but that didn't help.
>
> Sam
>
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