Re: [Caml-list] Bug? Printf, %X and negative numbers

[Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> As Yutaka Oiwa said, it comes from the conversion from Caml 31-bit
> integers to C 32-bit integers, which performs sign extension.
> 
> Even though 0x40000000 and 0xC0000000 denote the same Caml int, I
> agree this behavior is very surprising and should be fixed.  I'll look
> into this.  Thanks for reporting the issue.


Having looked at it a bit myself, the fix will probable be *ahem* 
interesting.  Effectively, you have to stop using C's printf.  Either 
that, or parse the format string a second (third?) time to see wether you 
need to do a signed or unsigned int conversion.  Or, I suppose, we could 
completely redesign Ocaml to use 32-bit ints and do something else to 
differentiate ints from pointers :-).

More pragmatically, I think this behavior should just be documented.  
"Broken as designed".  Once you know about it, it's annoying not critical.

Brian


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