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Bug 13842 – Can't write integer minimums literals long-hand.

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: DUPLICATE
Severity: minor
Priority: P1
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2014-12-09T12:40:00Z
Last change time: 2014-12-17T18:32:40Z
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: john.loughran.colvin

Comments

Comment #0 by john.loughran.colvin — 2014-12-09T12:40:52Z

The compiler is being clever and erroring out saying that there's signed overflow, because it can't see that -9223372036854775808L is a valid long. It appears to apply the check before considering the minus sign. Obviously you can just use long.min, so it's only a minor annoyance.

Comment #1 by hsteoh — 2014-12-17T18:32:40Z

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 8929 ***