On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM, James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> wrote: >> I think all that needs to be defined is that conversion from unsigned to >> signed, and (negative) signed to >> unsigned integers have 2's complement wrapping semantics, and does not >> affect the bit pattern in memory.
I don't know if this particular implementation defined behavior is safe to be relied upon. I just want to suggest that if any such assumption is made in the code, a test should be added to configure to complain loudly if a platform violating the assumption is found in the future. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
