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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof (integral types)
Message-ID: <10141@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Apr 89 05:20:21 GMT
References: <10044@smoke.BRL.MIL> <7.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP> <5387@xyzzy.UUCP> <2199@pur-phy>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2199@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>why not make INT_MIN -32768?

How would you represent that on a 16-bit one's complement machine?
And no, it is not the place of the C standard to say that one's
complement machines are less desirable than two's complement;
in fact, I'd take issue with such a claim.  One of the nicest
machines I ever programmed was one's complement.

>it seems un c-like to make 0xf000 somehow an illegal value.

But it's not an illegal value.