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> What is the portable C trick to generate, say, the largest > representable value of type `short'? #ifdef __STDC__ #include <limits.h> #else #define SHRT_MAX (~(short)((short)1 << (sizeof(short) * 8 - 1))) #endif and then use SHRT_MAX. > The question is, how portable (specifically in the Guile context) > is the assumption that signed integers are always 2's complement? I think you can safely assume 2's complement, at least for anything that Guile is likely to run on. (I guess there might be some ancient CDC machine somewhere still using 1's complement, but who cares?) --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner