Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Alejandro Mery writes:
>
>> I think the $(( ... )) bash-ism can be replaced with a simple .c helper toy.
>
> The $(( ... )) construct is standard POSIX shell syntax, see
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_04
>
> Bash suppor
Rob Landley wrote:
> Implementing something by hand isn't _always_ a good alternative, sure. That
> would be the "thinking about the problem" part. In this instance, avoiding
> overflow is trivial. (If 1<<-1 didn't wrap around, it wouldn't even need the
> if statement.)
I don't think this af
