Re: Issue with constant

[Gaius Mulley]

Runar Tenfjord <runar.tenfjord@gmail.com> writes:

> The following code does not compile:
>
>  MODULE test;
>  FROM libc IMPORT printf;
>
>  CONST
>      MAXVALUE = 0FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFH;
>
>  VAR
>      bigval : LONGCARD;
>  BEGIN
>      bigval := MAX(LONGCARD);
>      printf('bigval = %llx\n', bigval); (* Prints 'bigval = fffffffffffffff' 
> *)
>      (* Assignment below fails *)
>      bigval := MAXVALUE;
>      printf('bigval = %llx\n', bigval);
>  END test.
>
> The constant should be identical to  MAX(LONGCARD) as printed,
> so this should probably work.
>
> Best regards
> Runar Tenfjord

Hi Runar,

yes - thanks for the report - quite correct.  I will fix this and add a
regression test to ensure this does not happen again !

$ gm2 -g assign.mod 
assign.mod:13:12: warning: attempting to assign a value ‘MAXVALUE’ to a 
designator ‘bigval’ which will exceed the range of type ‘LONGCARD’
   13 |     bigval := MAXVALUE;
      |     ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~

regards,
Gaius