c++ question.

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 2. September 2010 22.36.02 Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> >   I do not know what this methods do,
> >   They use a [-1] array index, perhaps to do pointer arithmetic?, but
> 
> no pointer aritimetic. it's just that the -1 is actually the biggest
> number  you can find using an unsigned int. so, it's 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
> ( or something near =p )

Actually, it's both.

-1 is the highest possible unsigned number, but in this case it's used as a 
negative index.

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