signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Tue Jun 28 12:57:00 GMT 2005


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
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> Please do remember that this is hardware dependent.  If you have
> problems with x86, it does not mean you have the same witha PPC or a
> Sparc. 

But the whole idea of hardware semantics is bogus, since you are
assuming some connection between C and the hardware which does not
exist. C is not an assembly language.



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