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> What is the portable C trick to generate, say, the largest > representable value of type `short'? (unsigned short) -1/2 > The question is, how portable (specifically in the Guile context) > is the assumption that signed integers are always 2's complement? You're pretty safe. I'd love to hear anyone's stories about non-2's complement machines that run Unix.