| Date: | Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:38:49 +0300 |
| From: | Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> |
| Organization: | Athens University of Economics and Business |
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| Subject: | Re: when is it necessary to use suffix of literals? |
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xian_hong2046@hotmail.com wrote: > I see, so does it mean the trailing suffixes are only used when the > literals are not assigned to any variable? Because if the literals are > assigned to some variables, the types of the variables (long, double) > should tell the compiler how much memory should be allocated to the > values. Is this right? Assignment to a variable is not relevant. For example, the following code will still print 0. int i = 0x80000000 * 0x100; System.out.println(i); What the trailing suffixes do is to FORCE the EVALUATION of an expression to use the specific type. -- Diomidis Spinellis Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective (Addison-Wesley 2006) http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality?cljp
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