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Re: Unsigned comparisons?

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From: lars.spam@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
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Subject: Re: Unsigned comparisons?
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:45:10 +0000
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by: Lars Brinkhoff - Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:45 UTC

Sid Maxwell wrote:
> Does anyone have any preferred code sequences for doing unsigned
> comparison?

As I recally, I looked at what KCC did, and it was something like first
complementing the sign bit of both operands.

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Re: Unsigned comparisons?	Lars Brinkhoff