Re: [PATCH 0/3] yacc: compute the best type for the state number

[Hans Åberg]

> On 1 Oct 2019, at 21:21, Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-10-01 06:53, Hans Åberg wrote:
>> One should note that the unsigned types are required to be 2’s
>> complement C/C++, unlike the signed ones, cf.
> 
> That is untrue by definition, since two's complement is strictly
> a mechanism for representing negative values, which the unsigned
> types do not do. They follow a "pure binary enumeration"
> (I think that's the wording).

Sorry, it should be integers modulo 2^n, where n is the number of bits, which 
2’s complement is equivalent to with a certain choice of integer 
representatives.