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Article #2149Re: should abs() be 'uint'?
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:06
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:06
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uddeborg@sisu.se (Goeran Uddeborg) writes: >In article <Bv7uL7.2IK@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>It would make sense. Unfortunately, that's not the way abs() was defined >>originally... and changing it now might break a lot of code. >It could hardly break a lot of code, could it? Henry Spencer's right. Under the proposed change `abs(0) <= -1' would yield 1. This kind of non-mathematical behavior might well break things.
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Subject: Re: should abs() be 'uint'? Message-ID: <bj?yscFZ@twinsun.com> Sender: usenet@twinsun.com Nntp-Posting-Host: farside Organization: Twin Sun, Inc References: <eyal.717552134@ise> <Bv7uL7.2IK@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Sep28.162422.26386@sics.se> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:06:17 GMT Lines: 10