[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61788] arrays of type int16 contain wrong numbers

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #61788 (project octave):

Most (or all?) platforms that Octave supports use two's complement for signed
integer. Could we use the overflow behavior of (un)signed C integers to make
this work?

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

§6.2.5 9:
> A computation involving unsigned operands can never overflow, because a
result that cannot be represented by the resulting unsigned integer type is
reduced modulo the number that is one greater than the largest value that can
be represented by the resulting type.

We could extend that specification to signed integers if we assume two's
complement...

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