Re: Documentation of abs(3), div(3) etc.

"Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martijn van Buul <[email protected]> writes:
> My point was that the proposed change indicates is pointless, doesn't
> change a single opcode, and obviously indicates a lack of understanding.
>
> If you really think that
>
> signed int a;
> return (signed int) ( - (unsigned)a );
>
> is in any better than
>
> signed int a;
> return -a;
>
> then I kindly suggest you catch up with how C works.

Your comment may be technically correct, but it is also amazingly
impolitely phrased. I suggest that you apologize.

Perry
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