On 27/11/23 17:39, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Nov 27 2023, Karthik B K wrote: > >> This is with the assumption that the encoding for -1 == 2^32-1. > No, the representation has nothing to do with that. It's a value > conversion. What's the encoding of (2^32-1)UL and (2^64-1)UL ? karthik.