At 14:26 11/18/2001 +0100, wouter van ooijen & floortje hanneman wrote:
> > This is correct. This calculation is in the "signed char domain", where
> > values with |value|>128 are not defined and results that fall into this
> > range may not behave as expected.
>
>Are you sure (and can you back this up with a reference to the standard)?
>Note that the questions was 'c0 < c1', not '(c0 - c1) < 0'. I see no
>'calculation' in 'c0 < c1'.

You're correct, of course (and you knew it :)   I rarely "dive into" a
compiler, and did forget about the fact that the calculation for the
comparison happens, so to speak, behind the curtain of range limits.

Thanks for catching this.

ge

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