Subject: Re: long long vs long
From: [email-masked]

4 Aug 1998 22:48:31 -0700
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]

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 ([email-masked])
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