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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> (I didn't look it up for PL/I or ADA, but most likely they do, too.
> Java is the only language that I know doesn't allow it.)

Apart from Java's requirement of 2's-complement, the only case I can 
recall is that Ada goes out of its way to /permit/ 2's-complement. PL/I 
certainly doesn't have any particular requirement.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
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Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
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