Re: How to set the thirtysecond bit?

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:

Dear list.

I would have expected to be able to set the thirtysecond bit of an integer type, but I cannot. Does anybody know why?

hardware. concider a sequence of integers: ..., -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, ... what you wanted is: ..., -3, -2, -1, -0, +0, +1, +2, +3, ... which is not allowed. Russ