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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Of Standards and Inventions: A Cautionary Tale
Message-ID: <10952@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 15:52:09 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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By the way, I should probably have mentioned that there is
an easy way to fix the `LONG_MIN > 0' without any real changes
to the draft, and that is to use

	#define LONG_MIN (-0x7fffffff-1)

rather than

	#define LONG_MIN -0x80000000

The example <limits.h> (which also sets minimal maxima) is for a
one's complement machine and does not suffer from this `feature'.
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