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Signed data implies that at least 1 bit represents the signess of the underlying bytes. C did not want to impose which bit must represent the sign of the intege
by matthewaveryusa 10y ago
Signed data implies that at least 1 bit represents the signess of the underlying bytes. C did not want to impose which bit must represent the sign of the integer because that may have implications on the performance of hardware that was built to represent signess a different way.