bit patterns of all ones
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Tue Jan 20 18:56:30 AEST 1987
In article <599 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>Does ANSI explicitly require binary arithmetic?
For purposes of signed<->unsigned conversion of parameters
and bitwise operations, X3J11 decreed semantics "as if" a
binary numeration system were used. The underlying architecture
can, however, be quite different, so long as the implementation
properly mimics the abstract machine.
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