"Shankar Unni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:2288@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Well, what is it supposed to do? Technically, according to the C standard,
> anyway, this operation has undefined effects, because you are converting a
> negative number ((signed long) (y - z) * 10) into an unsigned number in
> order to add to "x".
So:
unsigned int x, y;
x = 6;
y = x + -1;
will give undefined results? I find this hard to believe.
Personally I'm all for a 256-bit word size which is always signed!
Stephen Best
Bitware Australia
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