On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 04:24:38PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: > Paul Koning wrote: > > >And also because most people believe that C applies normal computer > >arithmetic, and they believe that normal computer arithmetic is > >wrapped 2's complement. (And indeed it usually is, give or take some > >bizarre exceptions like MAX_INT % -1) > > and not so bizarre exceptions like machines that trap on signed > overflow.
That's a non-issue in practice, because no C compiler uses such instructions by default.
