RE: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value

I still think it IS a bug.

You mean an unsigned number cannot be more than H"7FFFFFFF"?

That is a bug.

Unsigned numbers should be able to range from H"00000000" to H"FFFFFFFF".

Signed numbers range from H"80000000" to H"7FFFFFFF".

Peter.

>From: "Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
>Reply-To: MI400@midrange.com
>To: <MI400@midrange.com>
>Subject: RE: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:37:02 -0600
>
>Bob:
>
>So, the problem was in trying to initialize an unsigned value with a signed
>value and it isn't a bug when that doesn't work.
>
>Feeling my way somewhat cautiously here, then the code is working as
>designed but the error message didn't completely explain the problem that
>the PRM/translator was having with the initialization value.  What do you
>think of that statement?
>
>For what it's worth, until someone else pointed up the H" situation, I was
>seeing X".  My comment that the behavior was a bug was based on seeing the
>X" string.  It probably wouldn't have made any difference - I probably 
>would
>have assumed that X" and H" had the same semantics - but that specification
>difference is not intuitively different.  Wheels within wheels :)
>
>Thanks for helping with this.  Do you have a machine readable MI manual?
>
>Richard Jackson
>mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
>http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
>Voice: 1 (303) 808-8058
>Fax:   1 (303) 663-4325

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