From: "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Subject: Re: condition true or false? -> (-1 < sizeof("test"))
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:26:58 +0100
Date: 2012-05-22T18:26:58+01:00 [thread overview]
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:25:17 +0100, BartC wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
>>> The answer is to have + and -
>>> closed. What about *? That would make it x2 bits wider. What about
>>> exponentiation? Much more bits. Factorial?
>>
>> We're talking about C where operations and their results usually have the
>> same predefined width.
>
> Irrelevant. The concept either works or does not. In this case it does
> not.
That's fine. But in that case, every calculator or computer ever made is
useless, because you can always think up some calculation just beyond it's
capacity.
--
Bartc
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2012-05-21 15:28 ` condition true or false? -> (-1 < sizeof("test")) Nomen Nescio
2012-05-21 15:37 ` Richard Maine
2012-05-21 15:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-21 17:16 ` Robert A Duff
2012-05-22 1:08 ` Terence
2012-05-22 7:54 ` Les Neilson
2012-05-22 23:19 ` Terence
2012-05-23 7:20 ` Les Neilson
2012-05-22 15:43 ` Fritz Wuehler
2012-05-22 1:45 ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2012-05-22 6:11 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-22 8:00 ` Martin
2012-05-22 9:55 ` BartC
2012-05-22 12:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-22 16:25 ` BartC
2012-05-22 17:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-22 17:26 ` BartC [this message]
2012-05-22 18:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-23 7:26 ` Terence
2012-05-22 17:56 ` Fritz Wuehler
2012-05-22 10:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-30 3:22 ` robin.vowels
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