Re: a DWORD with all bits set...
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:12:18 -0500, Bill Snyder <bsnyder@airmail.net>
wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:58:04 -0500, "Doug Harrison [MVP]"
<dsh@mvps.org> wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:41:49 -0400, r norman <r_s_norman@comcast.net>
wrote:
You keep repeating the purpose to be assigning an unsigned integer the
largest value of its type from some value of a signed type. You are
correct in your argument based on this completely weird assumption.
I keep repeating the subject line of this post: a DWORD with all its
bits set, something you completely ignore. I don't see any reference
in the query to "largest value of an unsigned type from a signed
type".
LOL! The original post in this thread was:
is there any logical differnce between
DWORD dwFoo = -1;
and
DWORD dwFoo = ~0;
is there a reason to prefer one of them?
That's exactly what I've been talking about in every post I've made here!
Ah, you mean that original post with the Subject field of "a DWORD
with all bits set?"
Yes, that is the post from which I copied that text.
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Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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