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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (unsigned)-1
Message-ID: <5460@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 14:51:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 15 14:51:41 1986
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In article <559@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> ballou@brahms (Kenneth R. Ballou) writes:
>Actually, I think (unsigned) -1 does have to give you a bit pattern of
>all 1's.

It can't, on a one's-complement machine.  -1 is $FFFFFFFE or something
similar on these.