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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel... Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 21:02:35 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <vbahtb$3vpkd$1@dont-email.me> References: <2024Aug30.161204@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vb00c2$150ia$1@dont-email.me> <505954890d8461c1f4082b1beecd453c@www.novabbs.org> <vb0kh2$12ukk$1@dont-email.me> <vb3smg$1ta6s$1@dont-email.me> <vb4q5o$12ukk$3@dont-email.me> <vb6a16$38aj5$1@dont-email.me> <vb7evj$12ukk$4@dont-email.me> <vb8587$3gq7e$1@dont-email.me> <vb91e7$3o797$1@dont-email.me> <vb9eeh$3q993$1@dont-email.me> <vb9l7k$3r2c6$2@dont-email.me> <vba26l$3te44$1@dont-email.me> <vbag2s$3vhih$1@dont-email.me> <vS3CO.10106$kow1.6330@fx35.iad> Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:02:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="04b9462bf8233c0522365da918e60878"; logging-data="4187789"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19WpZDD9xS3GeUSksSqb35x+fqoKZWMgc0=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zYmGtWREAaRYI3Azlt5duQQ9iKQ= Bytes: 1819 Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> schrieb: [unsigned] > We use it exclusively for datatypes in the domain [0, 2**n). It's always > compared against other unsigned variables or constants. Works quite well. > Safer and cleaner than willy-nilly using int. The proposal for adding an unsigned data type to Fortran, which I initiated and which I am currently implementing for gfortran, does exactly that - no comparisions of signed vs. unsigned without explicit conversion (and no arithmetic either).