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Re: [patch/rfc] v2 bigcore.exp


Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:


+  /* Compute an initial chunk size.  The math is dodgy but it works
+     for the moment.  Perhaphs there's a constant around somewhere.  */
+  {
+    size_t tmp;
+    for (tmp = 1; tmp > 0; tmp <<= 1)
+      max_chunk_size = tmp;


max_chunk_size = ~((size_t) -1 >> 1);

What's to stop the right shift smearing the sign bit?


(I've just checked in the current test, we can fix this once we know a better equation).

Andrew



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