On Thu Jan 22 15:55:09 EST 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: > I ask this every time I hit this piece of code, I think. But what the heck: > > if(seed <- 0) > seed = seed + m_31; > > what's wrong with this code?
supposing the code does what it is supposed to on some machines, i would guess that this could be a problem for sign-magnitude or one's-comp. machines, since 0 and -0 are different. if that's the case, one would guess that the object is to clear sign bit and -0 is the failure case. then again, that's a very wild guess and one would assume that sign = -sign would be better. -0 is a strange construction and the spacing is misleading. it's interesting that atoi(2) and the differ on "- 0". - erik
