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Amelorate on Oct 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server

Wouldn't it be possible to, with a really strange number format for integers, define SIZE_MAX as INFINITY? C doesn't require twos-compliment numbers, after all.

yiyus on Oct 31, 2019 [–]

> Wouldn't it be possible to, with a really strange number format for integers, define SIZE_MAX as INFINITY?

That's a very interesting question that got me thinking for quite a while and the only conclusion I reached is that you deserve an upvote.

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