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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.arch.arithmetic,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Access carry flag from C
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 23:36:25 GMT
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- In article <313178D5.41C6@bazis.nl> fkorntne@bazis.nl "Franz Korntner" writes:
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- >Tanmoy Bhattacharya wrote:
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- >> The values given below shall be replaced by constant expressions
- >> ... Their implementation-defined values shall be greater in magnitude
- >> (absolute value) to those shown, with the same sign.
- >
- >does imply that the implementation defined values (the plysical limit) shall
- >be greater than the shown constants. thus INT_MAX is a minimal limit as the
- >implementation defined maximum can (and according to the above- will be) larger
- >than the constant. Right ?!?
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- No, it is saying that the implementation is required to define INT_MAX to
- be 32767 or more, and therefore that ints must be able to represent values
- up to at least 32767.
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