From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 6 18:33:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from intranova.net (blacklisted.intranova.net [209.3.31.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7512614E10 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 5517 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2000 21:30:27 -0000 Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (user31307@209.201.95.10) by blacklisted.intranova.net with SMTP; 6 Jan 2000 21:30:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:26:46 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Tom Embt , cjclark@home.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It can't be signed because you then break all dates before the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC) Omachonu Ogali Intranova Networking Group On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > >BTW, I *think* it would be 2^31-1 not 2^31. For example, doesn't a char > >store values from -128 to 127 ? > > Only if it's treated as a signed value. If it is unsigned, then the extra > bit can be used for value storage. > > signed int: -128 127 > unsigned: 0 255 > > -=> jm <=- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message