Signed to unsigned comparison

der Mouse mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Tue Mar 26 22:38:19 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar24.001308.12852 at zoo.toronto.edu>, henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> The -1 is converted to `unsigned int', probably giving something like
> 65535 or 2147483647, and then the comparison is done, probably not

65535 or *what*?  I don't think 31-bit ints can really be spoken of
with language like "probably".

:-), naturally....

					der Mouse

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