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From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] 8c puzzling behavior
Date: Wed,  9 Mar 2011 08:05:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b40479627f2bc85b84fffa622b90af01@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d48db8f51a5c5abc669f67d8a3f39c3@terzarima.net>

On Wed Mar  9 02:11:21 EST 2011, forsyth at terzarima.net wrote:
> >ah, that's the c type system.
> 
> not exactly: ansi changed it.
> the original one had unsigned as an attribute that remained despite changes of word length.
> ansi changed it for various reasons to `value preserving' from `unsigned preserving'.

i was meckering about the current state of affairs,
not casting aspersions on the original.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-08 17:16 erik quanstrom
2011-03-08 20:21 ` geoff at plan9.bell-labs.com
2011-03-08 23:32 ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-08 23:54   ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-09  7:23     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-09 13:05       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-03-08 17:21 erik quanstrom
2011-03-08 17:43 ` Lucio De Re

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