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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-08-28 02:39:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-08-28 02:39:10 +0200 |
| commit | 21b23e35a728c027ae88fe6084e15775e60388f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 60f43ab9670d28f99df375e23cfc4b433cda669e | |
| parent | typo (diff) | |
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int*_t are guaranteed to use two's complement
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index 541767d..1ce2093 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -1346,20 +1346,6 @@ on protocols. @itemize @bullet{} @item -@cpindex Integers, minimum value restriction -@cpindex Minimum value restriction on integers -@cpindex Restrictions on minimum value for integers -Because C allows signed integers to be encoded as -either sign and magnitude, one's complement or two's -complement@footnote{GCC only allows two's complement}, -the minimum value of any signed value with a fixed -bit-size is the negative of its maximum value, that -is, the minimum value @code{int16_t} is to be assumed -to be @code{-INT16_MAX} (@math{-32767}) rather than -@code{INT16_MIN} (@math{-32768} with two's -complement.) - -@item Integers that are not especially encoded must not be larger than 64-bits if they use fixed bit-size. If, for example, @code{size_t} is 128-bits on your |