Hi Pascal.

19-Jan-04 17:12:36, Pascal Schmidt wrote to Bill Birrell


 PS> Hi Bill! :-)

 BB>> By that very definition it is a term used in C. I said nothing
 BB>> about a macro. I said only that maxint was defined. It does
 BB>> appear in italics on the left hand side, doesn't it? Read what
 BB>> you yourself wrote: "other terms are defined ....".
 PS> Now let's try compiling a C program with minint in it:

 PS> #include 

 PS> int foo = maxint;

 PS> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W   -c -o minint.o minint.c minint.c:3: `minint'
 PS> undeclared here (not in a function)

 PS> No such problem occurs for INT_MAX.

 PS> It would also be against the naming conventions used in the C
 PS> standard to define a constant with a name in lower case

I think it was also in italics, maybe if you can enter it in italics it'l
work :^)

it seems maxint is one of ther terms that was used in describing the C
language, but it is not part of the language or the standard environment
itself.

 -=> Bye <=-

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