[Coco] BASIC09 - unsigned INTEGERs?

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 31, 2015, at 8:42 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> 
> You don't need to go quite that far to just print the result. If you want to do 32-bit math you might need to separate the four bytes.
> As suggested by others, conversion of the hex words to reals might get around the negative integers.

Yes, I’d love to see someone who can figure this out. I tried all of that with no luck. Even did things like this:

cReal = LAND($FFFF, aInteger)

The problem is, to BASIC09, ANYTHING that is in an INTEGER with the high bit set, is a negative number when it comes to math. I even tried to convert them to strings and back, but no luck. $FFFF converted is still negative.

Right now, the only two working proposals are:

1. check if it’s negative, then add when assigning it to real (simplest).
2. use PEEK to get the individual bytes and build it back

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