L and H in constants

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Hi Friedrich,

in the constants include script, there are numbers with a H or a L at
the end. I guess, this is for "long" and "hex". How are these suffixes
handled by setup builder?

Thanks.

Markus

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Hi Markus,

> in the constants include script, there are numbers with a H or a L at the
> end. I guess, this is for "long" and "hex". How are these suffixes handled
> by setup builder?

The 'L' is a thing from the past (early SB5 alpha in Y2002) and only there
for backward compatibility.

Both 'L' and 'H' define a hexadecimal value in a SB constant.

Friedrich

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Thank you for the explanation.

Is this documented?

I have attached a demo script, that could be useful to understand this
hex constants.

Markus

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Hi Markus,

> Thank you for the explanation.
>
> Is this documented?
>
> I have attached a demo script, that could be useful to understand this
> hex constants.

No, this is not documented because we only use it in the "Common
Definitions.sbi" include script. In fact, it's not "officially" supported.
We added the HEX constants to make our own life easier <g> (because all bit
mask values on MSDN are HEX values).

Friedrich

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But there is a (possible related) undocumented option in the
"preprocessor set constant" function, which is visible to everybody, who
uses this function. See attached screen shot.

Markus

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Markus,

> But there is a (possible related) undocumented option in the
> "preprocessor set constant" function, which is visible to everybody, who
> uses this function. See attached screen shot.

Yes, you are right. We added this option last year. We'll add a note to
the documentation.

Friedrich

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Still open in 3325

Markus Zander

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Hi Markus,

>
> Still open in 3325
>

The Development Build does not provide updated documentation.

Friedrich

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OK in build 3378. Thank you.

Markus Zander