From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: /internet 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <199812171745.OAA00916@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
References: <199812170142.BAA27978@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00648.html

Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk> said:

[...]

> Well, if the machine can support C at all, it can support unsigned integers.
> So the worst case would be to implement all signed arithmetic with
> unsigned arithmetic.

Who says unsigned arithmetic isn't implemented by splitting each word in
half and computing the result from there to avoid overflows?

(Yes, I love to spoilsport :)
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