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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> The authors of the C Standard have indicated in their rationale that they
> would expect that commonplace implementations would process the above
> function correctly.  Should the fact that the Standard would allow an
> implementation to do otherwise be taken as implying that a quality
> implementation for a two's-complement platform *should* do so?

You should start a blog so you can make these points without re-writing
them every time.

(Don't worry, this is the last time I'll do this.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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