Although many common implementations use a two's complement representation of signed integers, the C standard Standard declares such use as implementation-defined and allows all of the following representations:
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Recommendation | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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INT16-C | medium | unlikely | high | P2 | L3 |
Related Guidelines
ISO/IEC 9899:2011 Section 6.2.6.2, "Integer types"
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