From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 6 6:19:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5331315628 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:19:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 126Dl6-0002Mz-00; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:19:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66468; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:19:23 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:19:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Tom Embt Cc: cjclark@home.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000106081108.015a8e68@mail.embt.com> 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 >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