Re: [PATCH] Fix CPU bitmask truncation

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
20 Dec 2002 10:23:17 -0800

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 04:17, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> This is useless. Assigning -1 to any unsigned type is garanteed to give
> you all bits one, and with two's complement this also holds for any signed
> type.

Only if the -1 is the same size as the unsigned type. Otherwise it will
be 0-extended.

J

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