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Re:Issues with porting C++ code to a 64-bit platform by cube13 on Monday April 01, 2013 @03:57PM (#5475485)
Signed integer representations. Unsigned ints do not, and you're given the full range of the integer as valid data.
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Re:Issues with porting C++ code to a 64-bit platform by dschatz on Monday April 01, 2013 @04:09PM (#5475566)
Yes you're right. I should have been more specific that all signed integers have a sign bit.
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