Re^7: -1 from hex ffffffffffffffff ?

You can't concatenate numbers together

I think it's pretty common to write a hex string as a concatenated sequence of hex bytes — even Perl does it:

$ perl -e"print unpack('H*', 'foobar')"
666f6f626172
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Think of that foobar as a sequence of bytes in memory representing a little-endian number...

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Re^8: -1 from hex ffffffffffffffff ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 02, 2009 at 20:15 UTC
even Perl does it: You misquoted me. Perl makes no claim that string of bytes 666f6f626172 is 7261626f6f66	[reply]