On Tue, 20 May 2008 21:19:43 -0300 "Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:18 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 May 2008 18:27:32 -0300 "Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> >
> > then u'd have a platform that does NOT do 2's compliment math. not compiler
> > but cpu... and i'd love to see that exist - NOT. :) everything is 2's
> > compliment and so a 1 bit signed bitfield when "on" is "-1" which as you say
> 
> yes, this makes sense.
> 
> 
> > - still is
> > true. it always will be :)
> 
> but as kwo told, -1 != 1, so depends on how you check for true :-/

yup. this is the catch. u can do "is true or not" tests, but equality tests may
or may not have the desired effect :) as you stated below! :)

> usually boolean operations will work, but direct comparison will
> not.... but yes, i have not seen any == 1 or != 1 in e, so it's bit
> pointless.
> 
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