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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you use "if ( a = b )"? (was Re: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <20165@alice.att.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 03:18:08 GMT
References: <15053@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> <3482@inews.intel.com> <20137@alice.att.com> <calypso@dce.ie>
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In article <calypso@dce.ie> em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) writes:

> Was this a 1s-complement machine?  A sane 2s-complement machine can't
> produce 0 on subtraction unless the numbers are equal.

I think it was a 2's complement machine with weird behavior on overflow.
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