N736 J11/97-099 Preprocessor arithmetic Randy Meyers 27 June 1997 1 Introduction This paper provides alternative wording for N698 (Implementation Defined Integral Types) Section 9. Four alternatives (A through D) are offered; the committee should choose one. Note that alternatives A, B and D have a common change to "Forward references." 2 Wording Changes It seems wise to require preprocessing arithmetic to be performed in the largest integral type that the implementation supports. Replace the following sentences from Section 6.8.1 (Conditional inclusion), paragraph 4: The resulting tokens comprise the controlling constant expression which is evaluated according to the rules of 6.4 using arithmetic that has at least the ranges specified in 5.2.4.2, except that {int} and {long}, and {unsigned int} and {unsigned long}, act as if they have the same representation as, respectively, {long long} and {unsigned long long}. with (Alternative A): The resulting tokens compose the controlling constant expression, which is evaluated according to the rules of 6.4 using arithmetic that has at least the ranges specified in 5.2.4.2, except that the signed integer types and the unsigned integer types act as if they have the same representation as, respectively, {intmax_t} and {uintmax_t} if those types are defined by the {} header or {long long int} and {unsigned long long int} otherwise. or with (Alternative B): The resulting tokens compose the controlling constant expression, which is evaluated according to the rules of 6.4 using arithmetic that has at least the ranges specified in 5.2.4.2. If the {} header defines {intmax_t} and {uintmax_t}, the signed integer types and the unsigned integer types act as if they have the same representation as, respectively, {intmax_t} and {uintmax_t}. Otherwise, the signed integer types and the unsigned integer types act as if they have the same representation as, respectively, {long long int} and {unsigned long long int}. or with (Alternative C): The resulting tokens compose the controlling constant expression, which is evaluated according to the rules of 6.4, except that all signed integer types and all unsigned integer types act as if they had the same representation as, respectively, a single signed integer type and its corresponding unsigned integer type. The single signed integer type and corresponding unsigned integer type shall have at least the ranges specified in 5.2.4.2 for, respectively, {long long int} and {unsigned long long int}.[reference new footnote] [New footnote] Implementations are encouraged to perform preprocessor arithmetic using the types {intmax_t} and {uintmax_t} from the {} header. or with (Alternative D): The resulting tokens compose the controlling constant expression, which is evaluated according to the rules of 6.4, except that all signed integer types and all unsigned integer types act as if they had the same representation as, respectively, a single signed integer type and its corresponding unsigned integer type. If the {} header defines {intmax_t} and {uintmax_t}, the single signed integer type and corresponding unsigned integer type shall be able to represent the values of, respectively, {intmax_t} and {uintmax_t}. Otherwise, the single signed integer type and corresponding unsigned integer type shall be able to represent the the values of, respectively, {long long int} and {unsigned long long int}. Add Forward reference (Alternatives A, B, or D only): Largest integral types (7.4.3) Note, the above forward reference may have to be adjusted to reflect the rewrite of the section on .