long problems

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday 22 December 2010 21:04:37 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> quick question - will the following code do as I expect?
> 
> long x;
> 
> x = -1;
> 
> assert(x == -1);
> 
> cuz I've hit a spot where the optimizer isn't loading the high dword into x

That would depend on what you expect. If you expect x to be equal 42, you're 
likely to be dissapointed. ;)

That said, it's definitely a bug if that assertion fails - an _enormous_ bug 
really. Regardless, it works just fine on my machine. So, whatever the optimizer 
does or doesn't do, the assertion doesn't fail.

- Jonathan M Davis