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Re: Hex constants interpreted differently in IDL/v5.2 [message #15503]

Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00

thompson
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thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov (William Thompson) writes:

> A colleague of mine (Craig DeForrest) pointed this out to me, and I thought it
> important enough to distribute more widely. Has anybody else run into this
> one?

> Apparently, IDL/v5.2 interprets some hexadecimal constants differently than
> previous versions. For example, the statement

> IDL> help,'aa7f'x

> under IDL/v5.1 produces the result

> <Expression> LONG = 43647

> while under IDL/v5.2, the following is returned

> <Expression> INT = -21889

Update -- I just heard that RSI considers this a bug, because v5.2 acts
differently in this regard than all earlier versions of IDL. The next version
of IDL should go back to the old behavior.

Bill Thompson

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		Re: Hex constants interpreted differently in IDL/v5.2 By: thompson on Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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		Re: Hex constants interpreted differently in IDL/v5.2 By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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