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Re: Please don't do this (code fragment)



According to every reference I have found, there is no stipulation
that integers be implemented using two's complement notation.  IIRC,
some of the Cray computers represented integers with a sign bit.  I
doubt the claim.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> elf@florence.buici.com writes:
> 
> > Good grief.  Can you be more constructive?  Do you have a reference
> > that supports the claim?
> 
> Huh?  The ANSI and ISO C standard supports the claim, trivially and
> obviously.  Go look at it.  K&R [1978] is something like fifteen years
> before the standard.



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