Aug. 27, 2006
3:24 a.m.
[David Hopwood]
(CPython has probably only been tested on 2's complement systems anyway,
Definitely so. Are there any boxes using 1's-comp or sign-magnitude integers anymore? Python assumes 2's-comp in many places.
but if we're going to be pedantic about depending only on things in the C standard...)
No, in that respect we're driven by the silliest decisions made by C compiler writers ;-)