On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 05:37:41PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 09:05:58AM -0800, Tyler Retzlaff wrote: > > > Not sure i agree. It's a very common pattern and is widely used and > > > understood. I mean, if anything, seeing `~0` would have me stop and > > > think as i've literally never seen such code before. > > > > it produces warnings under some compilers. in some enterprises we are > > required to fix certain classes of warnings (not suppress them from the > > command line) as a function of security policies. > > > > as an alternative would you be more willing to accept something like the > > following? ``(unsigned long long)-1LL'' if you don't like ``~0ULL'' it > > would make explicit what the compiler is already doing. > > > > the issue is the application of the sign to what is clearly something not > > signed; it get's flagged. so the cast is an explicit expression of intent > > that will not generate the warnings. > > > > appreciate you're help in finding a solution even if it isn't the > > proposed solution. > > > What about using ULLONG_MAX and similar defines from limits.h?
i think this would be okay even in circumstances where the code is building masks so long as in practice it results in "all bits being set". i'm not aware of a XXX_MAX where max isn't all bits set.. is there?
