Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 26.03.2025 12:33, David Brown wrote:

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Even in C (in a desperate attempt to bring us back on topic for the
group), there are no negative integer constants - merely positive
integer constants with a unary minus operator applied.

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Is that so? (Harmlessly asking.) - I mean, if I write  int x = -5;
does it matter (in "C") whether its parsed as  <integer number>  or
 <negation> <positive number> ?

If -5 were a single token (an integer constant), then 6-5 would be an
integer constant 6 followed by an integer constant -5, a syntax error.

If INT_MIN is -2147483648 and INT_MAX is 2147483647, the expression
-2147483648 is of type long int.  Implementations of <limits.h> have to
work around this.

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