[XviD-devel] gmc weirdo

[skal]

	Hi everybody,

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 15:35, Christoph Lampert wrote:
> Which on machines with 2's complement for negative number (and I don't
> think any other are still available) is just the same as interpreting the 
> "signed" bitpattern as "unsigned". In any way, every negative number
> becomes larger than any positive number, so the check does exactly
> what it's supposed to do. 
> 
> Anyway, the code is correct, but that doesn't help the users, does it?
> We'll need a workaroud for VC++. 

	Some ideas:

	- try the opposite tests: 

if ((uint32_t)W>=(uint32_t)u)


	- try pointer dereferencing (shouldn't incur overhead
	when -correctly- optimized):

	if (*(uint32_t*)&u<=(uint32_t)W)


	my 0.03euros (yeah, the additional 0.01euros are
	for the aspirin;)

	bye!
		Skal