On 26.01.2008 16:54, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>>> It is possible to work out bitwise ops on magnitude representation, 
>>> by computing the two's complement representation on the fly in the 
>>> primitives or in the fallback Smalltalk code.
>>
>> OK, another - better - way to go: should be much less work than 
>> changing the representation.
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> That's exactly what nicolas's patch in mantis does.

Thanks for the clearification!

Stephan

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> Paolo
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