Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war

Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:03:12 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Horst von Brand wrote:
[quote snipped]
> C's unsigned arithmetic is 2-complement. Never even seen a 1-complement
> machine.

CDC big iron. Seymour Cray found he could get a little more speed out of
his design that way. IIRC SPSS on CDC gear used the -0 value to indicate
a missing case.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Make a good day.


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