Re: Some kind of contextual modulo operator?

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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> I understand that calling malloc() as a foreign function is more
> complicated than calling it from C.  I don't understand why you'd
> deliberately use a signed argument for a function that takes an unsigned
> argument.

That would be because, as he's repeatedly demonstrated, he's not very bright

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