[Gambas-user] Type Mismatch error with max neg long int as constant

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Very similar problem...

Public Const LowestInteger As Integer = -2147483648
Yields; "Out of range"

Gambas 3 rev 3389 @ Ubuntu 10.10

Jussi




2010/11/27 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>

> > > > In Gambas2, I get a type mismatch error...but no error if ends in a 7
> > > >
> > > > PUBLIC CONST LOWESTLONG AS Long = -9223372036854775808   'from wiki:
> > > > -9.223.372.036.854.775.808
> > > >
> > > > -Fernando
> > >
> > > Mmm. Yes. Strange, as it works inside the interpreter, and I thought
> both
> > > compiler and interpreter had the same "string to number" routine.
> > >
> > > I will look at that...
> >
> > OK, I see: the compiler reads the sign of the number in one place, and
> the
> > digits in another place. So it tries to read "9223372036854775808" as a
> > positive integer, and of course it overflows, as the greatest long is
> > "9223372036854775807".
> >
> > No solution at the moment...
>
> OK, that should be fixed in both Gambas 2 and Gambas 3 in revision #3328.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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