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- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 85 11:53:55 EST
- From: Dan Franklin <dan@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA>
-
- Some of the values in the column "Minimum value" are actually maximums rather
- than minimums, and the draft should indicate this. That is, for the minimums
- CHAR_MIN, INT_MIN, LONG_MIN, and SHRT_MIN, the column gives the maximum
- permissible value (as it should), not the minimum permissible. Before I
- realized this, I thought it was an error that the "minimum value" for CHAR_MIN
- was 0 rather than -128. One way to make this clearer would be to change the
- column label "Minimum value" to "Minimum (Maximum) value" and put the values
- which are actually "largest permissible minimums" rather than "smallest
- permissible maximums" in parentheses.
-
- Dan
-
- [ This comes up at every meeting. Your method looks as good as any. -mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 23
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