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[der Mouse]

In article <67790004 at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>, thomasw at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Thomas Wang) writes:

> #define COMP_GREATER   (1)
> #define COMP_EQUAL     (0)
> #define COMP_LESS      (-1)
> #define COMP_UNORDERED (MININT)

> #define LE(x) (-(x) >= COMP_EQUAL) /* less than or equal, -MININT == MININT */

-MININT is not necessarily equal to MININT.  Suppose integers are
sign-magnitude, or ones-complement, or balanced-ternary[%]....

[%] This is legal, though painful ugliness is mandated to preserve the
    appearance of binary for numbers from 0 to INT_MAX.

					der Mouse

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