On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:30:34PM +0200, Karl Hammar wrote: > > It seems to work after this patch also: >
You mean your "cannot compile docs" bug? I cannot reproduce that now, nor could I when you reported it. > /// > > diff --git a/globalconst.h b/globalconst.h > index 6599823..12c0592 100755 > --- a/globalconst.h > +++ b/globalconst.h > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ > /* > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > * some limit specifications > */ > -#define LARGE_VALUE (LONG_MAX / 2 - 1) /* maximum extent of board > and elements */ > +#define LARGE_VALUE LONG_MAX /* (LONG_MAX / 2 - 1) maximum extent > of board and elements */ > > #define MAX_LAYER 16 /* max number of layer, check > source */ > /* code for more changes, a *lot* > more changes */ > > /// > > A Coord is a typedef for long, and a long is signed type. Its range is > LONG_MIN to LONG_MAX, where > > $ grep -- -LONG_MAX /usr/include/limits.h > # define LONG_MIN (-LONG_MAX - 1L) > > on a typical 2's complement machine. > > Why do you want to use only half the range? > So that the width of a "max width" box can be calculated as LARGE_VALUE - (-LARGE_VALUE) without overflow, and so that two maximum widths can be averaged as (x + x) / 2. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
