Hello Stas!

Jan 14 15:34 03, Stas Degteff wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 SD> Value 0xffffffff is reserved for error return, not an real message 
 SD> number. -1l is equivalent to it.

I see. I have added the neccessary typecasts in fastlst, but they appeared
quite strange to me when I read the source first.

 SD> This strange usage of -1 produced historically: where 16 bit value be 
 SD> use for real message number.
 SD> Todo: replace ((unsigned long) -1l) to macro, defined  like as:
 SD> #define NOMESSAGE 0xffffffff

Ok, this would at least make the code look better. :)


Regards,
Gerrit

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