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Signed and unsigned integers

Precise rules are now provided for converting to and from unsigned integers. On a twos-complement machine, the operation is still virtual (no change of representation is required), but the rules are now stated independent of representation.

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Pete Jinks
Fri Jan 19 12:31:56 GMT 1996