Thread: Binary numbers in C

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    Binary numbers in C

    Hi all

    I've been reading about the different ways of representing binary numbers in general, i.e. the one's and two's complement.

    Which one does C use?

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    That is an hardware and OS issue, not a C issue, per se.

    The C compiler for that hardware/OS, will have to take this into account, in order to work properly. If your program involves working with bits/bytes/nibbles, etc., the programmer would have to know about the this feature.

    Otherwise, it should make no difference.

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