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"atomic" constants

• Posted by =?iso-8859-1?Q?JesusC_-_Jes=FAs_Consuegra?= Jul 03, 1998
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Hi, me again.
It looks like developping a wrapper is a good way to learn Euphoria with
some level of depth...

Now that I've mastered a little the data access to structures (thanks
David), I have a question on constants:

I'd like to have all constants predefined in this way (assuming all them are
32 bit):

constant IN_CLASSC_NET       =    #FFFFFF00
constant IN_CLASSC_NSHIFT    =    8
constant IN_CLASSC_HOST      =    #000000FF


constant INADDR_LOOPBACK     =    #7F000001
constant INADDR_NONE         =    #FFFFFFFF

I supposed that this would be adequate, but I've found that if I do a
printout of INADDR_NONE inside the debugger, I get 4.29497e+009, instead of
the "-1" that was intended, so the comparisons never match (and I'm getting
progressively insane)....

Shouldn't I use constants in this way?.
Thanks.
Jesus-winsock-is-closer.