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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