From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750755AbXBMPlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:41:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750752AbXBMPlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:41:05 -0500 Received: from ns2.tasking.nl ([195.193.207.10]:22776 "EHLO ns2.tasking.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750755AbXBMPlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:41:03 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1599 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:41:03 EST To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Organization: Altium BV X-Face: "`*@3nW;mP[=Z(!`?W;}cn~3M5O_/vMjX&Pe!o7y?xi@;wnA&Tvx&kjv'N\P&&5Xqf{2CaT 9HXfUFg}Y/TT^?G1j26Qr[TZY%v-1A<3?zpTYD5E759Q?lEoR*U1oj[.9\yg_o.~O.$wj:t(B+Q_?D XX57?U,#b,iM$[zX'I(!'VCQM)N)x~knSj>M*@l}y9(tK\rYwdv%~+&*jV"epphm>|q~?ys:g:K#R" 2PuAzy-N9cKM From: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland) Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.17.1.66 Message-ID: <27c8.45d1d5cf.69f9a@altium.nl> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:14:23 -0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: | Further, giving again answer to the question whether they generate signed or | unsigned comparisons: Have you ever seen a computer which addresses memory with | negative numbers? Since the answer is most likely no, signed comparisons would | not make sense for me. The Transputer has (had?) a signed address space: http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/transputer/chapter2/chap2-3.html -- Dick Streefland //// Altium BV dick.streefland@altium.nl (@ @) http://www.altium.com --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------