Type of USHRT_MAX

[Leif Leonhardy]

Marc Glisse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> according to the C standard, USHRT_MAX has type int (or unsigned int if
> short and int have the same size). __GMP_USHRT_MAX has type unsigned
> short. GMP sometimes defines USHRT_MAX as __GMP_USHRT_MAX, and always
> assumes that USHRT_MAX has type unsigned short (in printf in
> particular). This seems to only affect the testsuite, but it would still
> be nice to fix (some compilers give warnings).
>
> Should __GMP_USHRT_MAX be defined to ((unsigned int)current_definition)
> and the 'h' in printf format strings removed, or should USHRT_MAX be
> cast to (unsigned short) where needed? Or something else?

I'd go with "%hu",(unsigned short)USHRTMAX, which IMHO is more logical, 
since USHRTMAX should fit into an unsigned short. ;-)


-leif

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