[tex-live] ptexmac.h out of sync?

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Sat Oct 16 18:49:15 CEST 2004


karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

>     The copies in /t/texlive/Build/source.development/TeX/texk/*dvipsk
>     look suspicious...
>
> Non-functional difference:
> <     if (pdfbufsize - n < 0)                             \
> ---
>>     if (pdfbufsize < n)                                 \

That's not non-functional per se.

<URL:http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-July/000592.html>

If either n or pdfbufsize is of an unsigned type, pdfbufsize-n < 0 is
always false.  Even if both are of a signed type, the expressions are
only equivalent as long as both variables actually have the same sign.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum



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