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[bug-gnulib] Re: [bug-grep] length of dec. representation of a number

From: Paul Jarc
Subject: [bug-gnulib] Re: [bug-grep] length of dec. representation of a number
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:30:03 -0500
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Another such header file might include definitions for TYPE_MINIMUM and
> TYPE_MAXIMUM

For unsigned types, they're trivial, and for signed types, I don't
it's possible to calculate them unless you either invoke
unspecified/undefined behavior, or make assumptions about padding bits
and 2's-complement/1's-complement/sign+magnitude representation.


paul
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