gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (11/24/90)
In article <14518@megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes: >From article <3764@skye.ed.ac.uk), by richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin): >) The intention is to allow 2s and 1s complement. >Makes you wonder why the hell they didn't say that, doesn't it? >I think standards committees must take courses in wind-production. The standard says what X3j11 intended to say about this. Note that Tobin's paraphrase is inaccurate. Sign-magnitude representation is also permitted. The terminology in the standard relies on the ANSI dictionary to supply the meanings for technical terms not defined in the C standard; the terminology used was exactly what was meant.