<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keld@keldix.com" target="_blank">keld@keldix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I used to program some of these beast a while ago.<br>
There were C compilers and some UNIX port for them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Did their C compilers expose non-twos-complement integers, or did they emulate twos-complement?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Best regards<br>
keld<br>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Richard Smith wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Jason Merrill <<a href="mailto:jason@redhat.com">jason@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On 10/18/2013 11:15 PM, Lawrence Crowl wrote:<br>
> > > There were machines being sold in the 90's that were not two's<br>
> > complement, but I've lost track<br>
> > > since then.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6971886/exotic-architectures-the-standard-committee-cares-about" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6971886/exotic-architectures-the-standard-committee-cares-about</a><br>
> ><br>
> > The Unisys machine mentioned in the top-rated answer still seems to be<br>
> > sold.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Has anyone ever written a non-twos-complement C++ compiler for this machine?<br>
</div>> Has anyone ever written *any* non-twos-complement C++ implementation?<br>
> And... does anyone intend to write a non-twos-complement *C++17*implementation?<br>
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> If the answer to these questions is "don't know", how do we find out?<br>
> Strawman suggestion: remove non-twos-complement support from the standard<br>
> and wait to see if anyone complains (with the intent that we would restore<br>
> such support if there are actual complaints, not just hypothetical ones).<br>
> The world would have nearly four years to notice and react. Thoughts?<br>
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