Re: integers in preprocessor directives
Here's a thread about this same topic.
http://www.webservertalk.com/archive249-2007-9-2042484.html
SIZE_MAX is the correct name of the constant that determines the upper limit
on size_t.
Norbert Unterberg wrote:
Mycroft Holmes schrieb:
hi to all,
we recently got this bug: a file named "afxver_.h" defines SIZE_T_MAX
unconditionally as 2^32-1, even for x64 builds.
How do you know it is a bug? I can not find any reference about
SIZE_T_MAX except as default value for _CrtSetDebugFillThreshold. And
the header file says it is used by the collection classes.
So what do you use SIZE_T_MAX for?
BTW, in VS2008 SIZE_T_MAX is defined as UINT_MAX.
Norbert
we had a line in another header, saying "ifndef SIZE_T_MAX define it
as (size_t(0)-1)" and obviously, this line was ignored...
my question is: what kind of integers does the preprocessor use?
assume I want to test if SIZE_T_MAX is correctly defined; I'd do it
with templates, but let's assume someone forces me to use the
preprocessor. what should I write?
#ifdef _M_X64
#if SIZE_T_MAX == 0xffffffffffffffff
...
should I put some suffix to the constant?
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