Hi Patrick,
On Saturday, 2009-12-19 16:06:35 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> Just so I remember to capture it, under the various bit operators, not
> that there is a portability constraint but then under semantics, an
> implementation must support at least up to 48 bits. No mention of
> portability.
There are portable constraints 0 <= x < 2^48
> (Yes, I will change "implementation" but this sounds like, looks like,
> walks like a constraint on evaluators and not on expressions.
It is a constraint of the expression to be portable, an evaluator shall
support at least 48 bits.
Eike
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