Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2014, 16:56 -0500 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:42:57PM +0100, Jens Gustedt wrote:
> > So that's probably the reason why it is burried in the arch specific
> > stuff. So I see two solutions
> > 
> >  - have it as I did, be symmetric, and burry it in the arch specific
> >    files
> > 
> >  - have it in one place, but then bluntly use unsigned, UINT_MAX and 0U
> > 
> > I have no personal preference for any of that.
> 
> One simple definition that seems to work and naturally gets the types
> right:
> 
> #define WINT_MAX 0xffffffffu
> #define WINT_MIN (WINT_MAX-WINT_MAX)
> 
> Note that UINT_MAX isn't available in stdint.h; this was probably the
> original motivation for using UINT32_MAX. But spelling it out as
> 0xffffffffu explicitly works just as well.

perfect

Jens

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