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[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:30:22PM +0000, James Laver wrote:

> Although by rights it should be -1 on a twos complement machine.
> (For those who remember ones complement based numbers, or even know
> they existed).

You're confusing logical not with bit-wise not:

$ perl -e 'print "".(!0)."\n"'
1
$ perl -e 'print "".(~0)."\n"'
4294967295                        <-- 32-bit -1
$ perl64 -e 'print "".(~0)."\n"'
18446744073709551615              <-- 64-bit -1

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