On 21-Nov-2003 Richard Coleman wrote: > Jay Sern Liew wrote: > >> how do I find out the maximum (and minimum) value a long and int will hold >> in C? (before it overflows or underflows) >> >> if it's compiler-dependent, then does anyone know where I can find the GCC >> documentation for stuff like that? > > It will be architecture dependent (32 or 64 bit machines?). I doubt the > GCC docs talk about this. You might check Richard Steven's book on > "Advanced Unix Programming". It covers lots of information about > standard machine limits and how to discover them. > > Richard Coleman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
As a point of interest, there is a file /usr/src/contrib/gcc/enquire.c in the distributed sources which, when compiled and run, will report the max and min values of short, long, int, float, etc. along with various sizes and alignments. -- ---------------------------------- Just be glad Microsoft doesn't make passenger airplanes. Duane H. Hesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
