At 3:04 AM -0500 3/23/00, I (Garance A Drosihn) wrote:
>Once I found the messages,
>it took me another 30 seconds to realize the above is only for
>UNSIGNED types. For signed types, all of the above just result in a
>"max value" of -1... (so imagine the fun if some arbitrary type is
>changed from 'signed short' to 'unsigned int'...)
That last part was SUPPOSED to be "imagine the fun if some arbitrary
type is changed from 'unsigned short' (were these tricks work) to
'signed int' (where the tricks would result in a "max" value of -1).
time for me to get some sleep, I guess...
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