Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: I found:
- Long integer shift/mask operations now simulate 2's complement to give more useful results for negative operands in Misc/HISTORY, for the Python 0.9.6 release. That's different, though: it's about Python's semantics, not C's. It's orthogonal to the question of whether the underlying C implementation uses two's complement, ones' complement or sign-magnitude. I can't find any explicit indication of a decision to assume that the hardware integers are two's complement anywhere; as far as I know, no such decision was ever taken. But of course your simplifications are valid regardless of the integer representation of the machine. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8659> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
