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Thanks for the correction! > only guaranteed to have the range [-1, SSIZE_MAX] Oh, that's a weird type. I wonder if any compiler implementation encodes it wit

by vardump 10y ago

Thanks for the correction! > only guaranteed to have the range [-1, SSIZE_MAX] Oh, that's a weird type. I wonder if any compiler implementation encodes it with -1 bias, so that all bits 0 means "-1". It could cause a disaster if/when ssize_t is encoded as anything else but standard twos complement signed number...

colejohnson66 10y ago
I'd assume it's just an unsigned number with 0xFF... representing -1. So counting would go (assuming 8 bits) 0xFC SSIZE_MAX - 2 0xFD SSIZE_MAX - 1 0xFE SIZE_MAX 0xFF -1 That makes more sense to me than a bias that the compiler would have to know about.