Re: INT64_MIN and _MAX

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers\(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INT64_MIN and _MAX
Date: 2015-03-24 21:57:42
Message-ID: 87619q6ouh.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> writes:

>> I didn't replace the 0xFFFFFFFF ones because most or all of them
>> looked like basically bit-masking operations rather than actually
>> dealing with the bounds of an unsigned int or uint32. I was
>> specifically looking for places where literals were being used to
>> represent maximum or minimum values.

Kevin> Well, InvalidSerCommitSeqNo was initially defined to be
Kevin> UINT64_MAX -- but some buildfarm members didn't know about that
Kevin> so it was changed to UINT64CONST(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF). It is
Kevin> very much about wanting the maximum value for uint64.

That one _is_ changed to UINT64_MAX in my patch.

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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