05-17-2007
This has been very helpful. It reveals to me that UNIX is storing signed integer values just like most programming languages I am familiar with. The leading 1's for negative numbers would indicate that the highest order bit is a sign bit. Therefore 2#1010 is 10 and -2#1010 is -10 which would be represented as:
111....1110110 - depending on the bit size used.
Therefore I am suspecting the course is not correct when it claims ((~ 2#1001)) evaluates to 2#110, but that it actually evaluates to:
"-2#1010".
If UNIX used unsigned integers in this case then it would evaluate to a very large number depending on the bit size used. Something like 2#111...11110110. From your analysis I do not suspect this is the case.
There is one more thing I would like to verify. The course has the following question:
What do you think is the output of the following piece of code?
((x = 2#1101 & 2#110))
((y = ~x))
print - $y
The answer given is 11, as in decimal eleven or 2#1011.
From what I understand I think the answer should be -5 as in -2#101.
I plan to inform the course provider of these possible issues but I would like to make sure there is an issue. Thanks for your help.
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