Re: window decoration problem with sawfish and GNOME 2

[John Harper <jsh unfactored org>]

On Oct 29, 2003, at 10:25 PM, <geoff cs hmc edu> wrote:

> > ugh.. (I always disliked that 0xfffffffff magic number..)
> ...
> > > -		rep_VECTI(ret_data, i) = rep_make_long_uint(l_data[i]);
> > > +		rep_VECTI(ret_data, i) = rep_make_long_uint(l_data[i] & 
> > > 0xffffffff);
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why not use ~0 instead?  Then you're
> length-independent but don't have to mask.

the comparison against 0xffffffff is done by lisp code, but since 
numbers in lisp are (theoretically) unbounded ~0 has no meaning,

	John