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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David Eger wrote:

> Is there a reason to add the 'L' to such a 32-bit constant like this?
> There doesn't seem a great rhyme to it in the headers...
>
> -dte

Well if you put the 'name' so we could search for the reason.....
It probably is used for magic to initialize long-words. Without
the L, you may get a 'C' warning error because numbers default to
'int'.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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