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Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

3968.0. "Error using negative subrange." by KETJE::PACCO (Gallia divisa est in partes tres) Mon Oct 26 1992 12:16

    	Hy,

    Are negative subrange allowed or not ?
    A sub-range with a negative value does not compile correctly.

    If I use the following DECmcc MANAGEMENT SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE source
    file:



   TYPE
      Xecho = 560 Integer32 [-1..255];


    The compilation gives the following errors:

$ man/tool/spec x
DECmcc Management Specification Language Translation Tool
               Version V1.2

%MCCMSL-I-MSLLOCATION, Line: 36, File: X.MS;,
%MCCMSL-E-UNEXPCHARACTER, Unexpected character "-", in input
%MCCMSL-I-MSLLOCATION, Line: 36, File: X.MS;,
%MCCMSL-E-PARSER, syntax error: The value "-" is not expected
%MCCMSL-E-ERROR, MSL did not complete successfully, please see previous error

    
    	Is there a solution ?
    	Dominique.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3968.1	MSL currently does NOT support negative subranges	TEMTY::L_GROSSMAN		`Tue Nov 03 1992 08:50`	2
	The subrange values are saved in 32 bits which would have to be expanded.
3968.2	is subrange [4294967295..10] allowed ?	KETJE::PACCO	Gallia divisa est in partes tres	`Wed Nov 04 1992 04:43`	7
	Does this mean that e.g. a subrange [4294967295..10] in fact means a subrange [-1..10] for signed integers ? Dominique.