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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:20:03AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Whilst right now compilers usually end up exposing the behaviour of the
> underlying CPU (which is nearly always 2s complement these days) the core's
> code is making this assumption, but should not.
Please don't fix this, I have code on the CPAN that assumes perl only
runs on 2s complement machines :-)
And thankyou for this detailed explanation, it's very clearly written
and most instructive.
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