Unsigned and Bitwise Operators

[CusterDD]

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The following program always reports -1 is negative, -1 is positive
on UNIX 5.05 running on VAX-11/780, 3B20 and 3B2.
I used the cc compiler

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#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	char	foo;
	unsigned char ufoo;
	
	foo = ufoo = 1;
	if ((-1 | foo) < 0) printf("-1 is negative");
	if ((-1 | ufoo) > 0) printf("-1 is positive");
}
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If the ufoo test were to read:
	if ((-1 | ufoo) < 0) printf("-1 is positive");
then the printf would not be executed.

David Custer
AT&T Information Systems Labs
(303) 538-3517
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