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Re:The Problem with Friendly C by ori_b on Sunday December 27, 2015 @03:52AM (#10796891)
And now we get back to the initial quote: "What's your point? If you define a "plain integer addition" to be "wrapping binary two-complement addition", then there isn't, otherwise, there is."
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Re:The Problem with Friendly C by Dylan16807 on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:01AM (#10800548)
Okay, well since it's my term, I'll make it absolutely clear. The definition is not circular. On those DSPs, plain integer addition is saturating. For x86, so far all evidence points to it being twos-complement.

So the original original quote, "on x86 INT_MAX+1==INT_MIN", is true. As far as I can tell.

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