From 6184716f349ee978d684c6d09b4091d43ef8422f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simonpj <unknown>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:18:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 2001-08-20 14:18:30 by simonpj] Amplify comment
 on mkMachInt a little

---
 ghc/compiler/basicTypes/Literal.lhs |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/basicTypes/Literal.lhs b/ghc/compiler/basicTypes/Literal.lhs
index 3555d31..7df6fca 100644
--- a/ghc/compiler/basicTypes/Literal.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/basicTypes/Literal.lhs
@@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ instance Ord Literal where
 mkMachInt, mkMachWord, mkMachInt64, mkMachWord64 :: Integer -> Literal
 
 mkMachInt  x   = -- ASSERT2( inIntRange x,  integer x ) 
-	 	 -- not true: you can write out of range Int# literals
+	 	 -- Not true: you can write out of range Int# literals
+		 -- For example, one can write (intToWord# 0xffff0000) to
+		 -- get a particular Word bit-pattern, and there's no other
+		 -- convenient way to write such literals, which is why we allow it.
 		 MachInt x
 mkMachWord x   = -- ASSERT2( inWordRange x, integer x ) 
 		 MachWord x
-- 
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