[TUHS] Maximum Array Sizes in 16 bit C

[Rich Salz]

>
> if there need to be negative references in array accesses (which certainly
> makes sense to me, on its face), it seems reasonable to have whatever
> intermediate variable be signed.
>

In my first C programming job I saw the source to V7 grep which had a
"foo[-2]" construct. It was a moment of enlightenment and another bit of
K&R fell into place.  (
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/grep.c; search
for "[-")
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