Difference parsing from String and byte literal

[Dr Heinz M. Kabutz]

Please use capital L, especially for a binary number!

long coin = 0b10000000_00000000_00000000_10000000L; 


Regards

Heinz
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On 4/9/11 11:47 PM, Vimil Saju wrote:
> Shouldn't you use 
> long coin = 0b10000000_00000000_00000000_10000000l; 
> ?
>
>
> --- On Sat, 4/9/11, carsten.zerbst at groy-groy.de <carsten.zerbst at groy-groy.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: carsten.zerbst at groy-groy.de <carsten.zerbst at groy-groy.de>
>> Subject: Difference parsing from String and byte literal
>> To: coin-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011, 12:59 PM
>> Hello,
>>
>> I played a little with the new JDK7 and run into a
>> inconsistency with
>> existing code.
>>
>> So far I use the following code to represent a mask
>>
>>   long SOURCE_ENTITY_TYPE_MASK =
>> Long.parseLong("10000000" + //
>>              
>>    "00000000" + //
>>              
>>    "00000000" + //
>>              
>>    "10000000", 2);
>>
>> Ok, the shiny new version would be
>>
>> long coin = 0b10000000_00000000_00000000_10000000;
>>
>> But if one print the decimal and binary representation one
>> gets a difference
>>
>> from String 2147483776
>> from String             
>>              
>> 10000000000000000000000010000000
>> binary -2147483520
>> binary
>> 1111111111111111111111111111111110000000000000000000000010000000
>>
>>
>> This is no problem for my mask but should perhaps be
>> mentioned in the  
>> tutorial ?
>>
>> Bye, Carsten
>>
>>
>>     
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