On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > New patch below. Retested on i686 and bfin.
Yay, bikeshedding opportunity! :P Can we call them "leading *repeated* sign bits"? (in docs and comments) Calling them "redundant" makes you think the representation is not two's complement but new and improved... like (bitwise) (1<<31) == -1 or something. brgds, H-P PS. just a minor change, I can do the legwork.