You are a stupid programmer, you can't have that

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:49:13PM +0000, claptrap via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> And whats probably not obvious is that you need unsigned arithmetic to
> do multiword signed arithmetic, you only use signed arithmetic for the
> top most word.

Exactly!! This is why unsigned arithmetic is more basic and fundamental
than signed arithmetic.  The latter is built from the former, not the
former from the latter.


T

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