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Re: determines if it is a signed type

From James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: determines if it is a signed type
Date 2015-05-18 18:00 -0400
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On 05/18/2015 05:51 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
>> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
> (snip)
>>>> #define IS_SIGNED(t) (((t) < 0) || (-(t) < 0) || (~(t) < 0))
> (snip)
>>> Hmm...  Not, I think, 100% portable in that on a ones' complement
>>> machine with "normal" negative zeros, C permits ~t to be zero (i.e. not
>>> < 0).
>  
>> And it has undefined behavior on a two's-complement system if t is
>> INT_MIN.
> 
> -INT_MIN overflows on a twos-complement machine, but ~INT_MIN doesn't.

More importantly, if t is INT_MIN, then (t)<0 doesn't overflow, has a
value of 1, and therefore ensures that neither -(t) nor ~(t) ever gets
evaluated.

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determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 10:07 -0700
  Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-17 18:12 +0100
    Re: determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 10:34 -0700
      Re: determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 11:09 -0700
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Kusalananda <kusalananda@example.com> - 2015-05-17 18:22 +0000
        Re: determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 11:31 -0700
          Re: determines if it is a signed type Kusalananda <kusalananda@example.com> - 2015-05-17 19:59 +0000
  Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-17 13:12 -0700
  Re: determines if it is a signed type Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-05-17 19:08 -0500
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-05-17 19:46 -0500
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-18 01:59 +0100
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-05-17 20:10 -0500
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 00:37 -0700
        Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-18 21:15 +0100
          Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 15:15 -0700
        Re: determines if it is a signed type glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-18 21:51 +0000
          Re: determines if it is a signed type James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-18 18:00 -0400
      Re: determines if it is a signed type glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-18 14:37 +0000
        Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-18 17:09 +0200
          Re: determines if it is a signed type glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-18 18:14 +0000
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 06:34 +0100
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 00:43 -0700
        Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 13:56 +0100
          Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 08:00 -0700
            Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 20:35 +0100
              Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-18 23:08 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 22:32 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 00:44 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 00:05 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 01:43 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 01:08 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type "Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-19 11:33 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 08:15 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type "Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-19 19:36 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 11:55 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 11:39 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type "Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-19 11:44 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 12:11 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-19 05:45 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-19 15:03 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-19 08:46 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-19 17:08 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-19 09:52 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-19 20:36 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-20 07:40 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-20 23:12 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-21 13:52 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-21 22:48 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 05:50 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-22 23:14 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-26 14:31 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-22 23:32 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-20 12:26 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 15:28 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-05-23 10:37 +0000
              Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 15:21 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 00:04 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 08:03 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-19 08:47 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 08:07 -0700
          Re: determines if it is a signed type James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-18 11:28 -0400
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 00:40 -0700

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