On 2006-06-15, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> Firstly, a FAR more common assumption is that integers wrap in twos'
>>> complement - Python does not do that.
>>
>> It used to
>
> for integers ? what version was that ?
Am I remebering incorrectly? Didn't the old fixed-width
integers operate modulo-wordsize? I distinctly remember having
to rewrite a bunch of checksum code when fixed-width integers
went away.
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