[cfe-dev] Error when testing clang with VC++ RTL and Boost MPL

[Richard]

In article <l6109m$4sj$1 at ger.gmane.org>,
    Edward Diener <eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com> writes:

> Why is not 0xffffffff equal to -1 as a 32-bit signed integer ? Something 
> seems really strange if that is not the case.

A 32-bit signed integer has 31 bits of mantissa and 1 bit of sign.
They are a little comingled together in 2's complement notation, but I
don't think C++ requires 2's complement arithmetic.

0xffffffff specifies 32-bits worth of mantissa.
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