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		duaneb on June 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Little C Function From Hell Isn't that the same situation as only storing signed integers? The arithmetic is just a little different.

ralph on June 20, 2012 [–]

No, you get room for one more negative int. x = x < 0 ? -x : x; is a common buggy abs(), e.g. when printing an integer. One should test if it's negative, perhaps print the '-', and then ensure it's negative for the rest of the per-digit code.

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