size_t literals?

[jacek.dziedzic]

Hi!

On a machine where size_t is 64-bit, unsigned long is 32-bit, how
does one construct a size_t literal that says 2^32? Typing in

size_t x = 4294967296UL;

complains about the value being too large for unsigned long
(obviously, it's too large by one).

The nonstandard suffices "UI64" are also not recognized by the
compiler.

Should I construct with a value of 4294967295UL and then increment
the size_t variable?

TIA,
- J.

[James Kanze]

On 2 mar, 22:52, Micah Cowan <[e-mail]:

Ioannis Vranos <[e-mail]:

James Kanze wrote:

This is, of course, an incompatibility with C, since C allows
unsigned long even for a decimal.

I did not understand your last sentence above.

He means that a decimal literal without one of the suffixes, that
specifies a number greater than LONG_MAX is undefined in C++ (which
requires it to be representable as a long), but not in C (incuding
C90), which allows (requires) it to be represented as an unsigned
long.

Exactly, although when I reread the sentence I actually wrote,
it's not surprising the Ioannis didn't understand it.

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