Of Standards and Inventions: A Cautionary Tale

[Chris Torek]

By the way, I should probably have mentioned that there is
an easy way to fix the `LONG_MIN > 0' without any real changes
to the draft, and that is to use

	#define LONG_MIN (-0x7fffffff-1)

rather than

	#define LONG_MIN -0x80000000

The example <limits.h> (which also sets minimal maxima) is for a
one's complement machine and does not suffer from this `feature'.
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