On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 14:40 +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > > 0xFFFFFFFF (which is an unsigned int) > > wrong. That's an int with a bit pattern that's all 1's. On a two's > complement machine with 32-bit ints that's equivalent to -1. Forget that. I'm talking nonsense. An int is signed only if it's smaller than INT_MAX in magnitude. Otherwise it's unsigned (hence #defining INT_MIN as (-INT_MAX - 1) R.
