On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:39:23PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > And we ought to make a generic "safe" version of the code for signed > truncation that works for platforms that are any or all of the following > holds > > 1: no type of that size (eg Crays) > 2: signed integer truncation (UTS) [and other OSes on S/390 processors?] > 3: not 2s complement [no examples]
oops. forgot one: 4: nasal demons (Irix64) (doing stuff on out of range signed values is undefined behaviour, IIRC) Nicholas Clark
