Re: standard representations

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> sure if there are any non-two's complement machines out there anymore, 
>
>However, as perl5 has a few 2s complement assumptions already polluting the
>source, unless we can find a 1s complement (or other) machine to test on, it
>seems sensible (to me at least) to say that the initial implementation will
>assume 2s complement as we have nothing to test that we've got all the 2s
>complement assumptions out or the conditionally compiled non 2s complement
>code correct.

FWIW IEEE-754 Floating point isn't 2's complement for the mantissa.

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