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From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
To: pommnitz@darmstadt.gmd.de
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: long long vs long
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009CA39F.1D28C100.13638@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> (raw)

Hi Joerg, you wrote:

: > Hopefully ISO reserved the char at ((unsigned int)-1) exactly for
: EOF.
: 
: They can't. To do so, this would require assumptions of the internal
: representation of -1.

You're right! I assumed a 32bit charset will only be available on a
newer platform >=32bit, and all those I know are 2'comp integer,
(except for e.g. IEEE floating point, which is signed-magnitude).


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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             reply	other threads:[~1998-08-04 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-08-04 16:53 dahms [this message]
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1998-08-01  2:01 Joerg Pommnitz
1998-07-29 16:23 dahms
1998-07-27 18:55 dahms
1998-07-24 12:58 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-24  5:20 Robert.Cross
1998-07-23 11:42 Martin Portmann
1998-07-23 11:42 sjm
1998-07-22 17:12 John Estabrook
1998-07-22 10:06 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-23  0:43 ` $Bill Luebkert
1998-07-21  1:55 Graham Murray
1998-07-22  6:17 ` Harry Broomhall
1998-07-22 13:57 ` Michael H. Warfield
1998-07-23  6:15   ` Harry Broomhall
1998-07-23 13:02   ` Matthew Donadio
1998-07-23 15:30   ` Timothy Writer
1998-07-24 12:58     ` Matthew Donadio
1998-07-25  0:08     ` Larry Hall
1998-07-25  1:22       ` Timothy Writer
1998-07-24 12:58   ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
1998-07-22 13:57 ` Nicholas R LeRoy
1998-07-22 16:50 ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-23  8:33   ` Brian Osman
1998-07-27 14:23     ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-23  8:33   ` Harry Broomhall
1998-07-23 19:01     ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-24  5:20       ` Harry Broomhall
1998-07-25  0:08         ` Mumit Khan
1998-07-26  9:27           ` sjm
     [not found]           ` <9807261625.AA18550.cygnus.gnu-win32@frodo>
1998-07-28  0:57             ` Christopher G. Faylor
1998-07-27 14:23         ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-25  1:22       ` Timothy Writer
1998-07-28  0:57         ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-24  0:25     ` massimo morara
1998-07-22 17:12 ` Andrew Sharp
     [not found] <Michael>
     [not found] ` <H.>
     [not found]   ` <Warfield"'s>
     [not found]     ` <message>
     [not found]       ` <of>
     [not found]         ` <"Wed,>
     [not found]           ` <22>
     [not found]             ` <Jul>
     [not found]               ` <1998>
     [not found]                 ` <11:08:42>
     [not found]                   ` <-0400>

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