Re: SCM_POSFIXABLE(-1) fails with MSVC++ 6.0

[Lars J. Aas]

Lars J. Aas <address@hidden> wrote:
: Changing the alternative definition of SCM_LONG_BITS to cast the value
: to long like this works...
: 
: # define SCM_LONG_BIT ((long)(SCM_CHAR_BIT * sizeof (long) / sizeof (char)))

Come to think of it, the cast is better placed on the inside so it's more
evident what is being done (stopping the unsigned-ness of the sizeof()-
operations to propagate incorrectly out through the macro invokation) so
it's not removed later by someone not knowing about this compiler bug.

# define SCM_LONG_BIT (SCM_CHAR_BIT * ((long) (sizeof (long) / sizeof (char))))

or s/long/int/ on the cast?

BTW, is anyone reading these mails? ;)

  Lars J