Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 07:28:22 EST

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"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:

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> I don't know. I intended only to turn the sign bit on. I'm not sure how
> 1's complement arithmetic works, so I don't know if it works for 1's
> complement arithmetic.

C's unsigned arithmetic is 2-complement. Never even seen a 1-complement
machine.

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