[m-rev.] diff: avoid stack overflow

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-May-2003, Peter Moulder <pmoulder at mail.csse.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> Just looking at int.m.  Are we allowed to assume two's complement?

Yes.

> If not then odd,even are wrong.  Probably the right fix is just
> to add test cases (cf. the comment for the `>>' definition above
> odd,even definitions).

Such test cases would be good, but I wouldn't consider it a high priority.

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