1. CS 367 Integers Topics (Ch. 2.2, 2.3) Numeric Encodings
Unsigned & Two’s complement
Programming Implications
C promotion rules
Basic operations
Addition, negation, multiplication
Consequences of overflow
Using shifts to perform power-of-2 multiply/divide
CS 367

2. Encoding Integers Unsigned C short 2 bytes long
short int x = ;
short int y =
C short 2 bytes long
35020 = or
15213 = or

3. Negative Numbers Unsigned – only for positive numbers
Need to represent negative numbers as well
Would be nice if we could quickly look at a number and determine sign
Signed Magnitude – use leftmost bit (0 for positive, 1 for negative)
One’s Complement – take the unsigned bit sequence and flip all bits
Two’s Complement
Two
representations
for 0

4. Encoding Integers Two’s Complement Sign Bit C short 2 bytes long
short int x = ;
short int y = ;
Sign
Bit
C short 2 bytes long
Sign Bit
For 2’s complement, most significant bit indicates sign
0 for nonnegative
1 for negative

5. Encoding Integers Unsigned Two’s Complement Unsigned Values UMin = 0
000…0
UMax = 2w – 1
111…1
Two’s Complement Values
TMin = –2w–1
100…0
TMax = 2w–1 – 1
011…1
Other Values
Minus 1
111…1

6. Encoding Example (Cont.)
y = :

7. Values for Different Word Sizes
C Programming
 #include <limits.h>
K&R App. B11
Declares constants, e.g.,
 ULONG_MAX
 LONG_MAX
 LONG_MIN
Values platform-specific
Observations
|TMin | = TMax + 1
Asymmetric range
UMax = 2 * TMax + 1

8. Unsigned & Signed Numeric ValuesX
B2T(X)
B2U(X)
0000
0001 1
0010 2
0011 3
0100 4
0101 5
0110 6
0111 7 –8 8 –7 9 –6 10 –5 11 –4 12 –3 13 –2 14 –1 15
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111
Equivalence
Same encodings for nonnegative values
Uniqueness
Every bit pattern represents unique integer value
Each representable integer has unique bit encoding
 Can Invert Mappings
U2B(x) = B2U-1(x)
Bit pattern for unsigned integer
T2B(x) = B2T-1(x)
Bit pattern for two’s comp integer

9. Casting Signed to Unsigned
C Allows Conversions from Signed to Unsigned
Resulting Value
No change in bit representation
Nonnegative values unchanged
ux = 15213
Negative values change into (large) positive values
uy = 50323
short int x = ;
unsigned short int ux = (unsigned short) x;
short int y = ;
unsigned short int uy = (unsigned short) y;

10. Relation between Signed & Unsigned
T2U
T2B
B2U
Two’s Complement
Unsigned
Maintain Same Bit Pattern x ux X +
• • • - ux x
w–1
+2w–1 – –2w–1 = 2*2w–1 = 2w

11. Relation Between Signed & Unsigned
uy = y + 2 * = y

12. Signed vs. Unsigned in C Constants Casting
By default are considered to be signed integers
Unsigned if have “U” as suffix
0U, U
Casting
Explicit casting between signed & unsigned same as U2T and T2U
int tx, ty;
unsigned ux, uy;
tx = (int) ux;
uy = (unsigned) ty;
Implicit casting also occurs via assignments and procedure calls
tx = ux;
uy = ty;

13. Casting Surprises Expression Evaluation
If mix unsigned and signed in single expression, signed values implicitly cast to unsigned
Including comparison operations <, >, ==, <=, >=
Examples for W = 32
Constant1 Constant2 Relation Evaluation
0 0U
-1 0
-1 0U U
-1 -2
(unsigned) -1 -2 U
(int) U
0 0U == unsigned
-1 0 < signed
-1 0U > unsigned
> signed
U < unsigned
> signed
(unsigned) > unsigned
U < unsigned
(int) U > signed

14. Explanation of Casting Surprises
2’s Comp.  Unsigned
Ordering Inversion
Negative  Big Positive
TMax
TMin –1 –2
UMax
UMax – 1
TMax + 1
2’s Comp.
Range
Unsigned

15. Sign Extension Task: Rule: Given w-bit signed integer x
Convert it to w+k-bit integer with same value
Rule:
Make k copies of sign bit:
X  = xw–1 ,…, xw–1 , xw–1 , xw–2 ,…, x0
• • • X
X  w k
k copies of MSB

16. Sign Extension Example
short int x = ;
int ix = (int) x;
short int y = ;
int iy = (int) y;
Decimal
Hex
Binary x
15213
3B 6D ix
B 6D y
-15213
C4 93 iy
FF FF C4 93
Converting from smaller to larger integer data type
C automatically performs sign extension

17. Justification For Sign Extension
Prove Correctness by Induction on k
Induction Step: extending by single bit maintains value
Key observation: –2w–1 = –2w +2w–1
Look at weight of upper bits:
X –2w–1 xw–1
X  –2w xw–1 + 2w–1 xw–1 = –2w–1 xw–1 -
• • • X
X  +
w+1 w

18. Why Should I Use Unsigned?
Don’t Use Just Because Number Nonzero
C compilers on some machines generate less efficient code
unsigned i;
for (i = 1; i < cnt; i++)
a[i] += a[i-1];
Easy to make mistakes
for (i = cnt-2; i >= 0; i--)
a[i] += a[i+1];
Do Use When Performing Modular Arithmetic
Multiprecision arithmetic
Other esoteric stuff
Do Use When Need Extra Bit’s Worth of Range
Working right up to limit of word size

19. Negating with Complement & Increment
Claim: Following Holds for 2’s Complement
~x + 1 == -x
Complement
Observation: ~x + x == 1111…112 == -1
Increment
~x + x + (-x + 1) == -1 + (-x + 1)
~x + 1 == -x
Warning: Be cautious treating int’s as integers
OK here 1 x ~x + -1

20. Comp. & Incr. Examples
x = 15213

21. Comparison Operator Unsigned:
bit-wise compare from most significant (leftmost) bit –
for (i=0;i<32;i++)
if num1[i] > num2[i]  answer: num1 is larger
if num1[i] < num2[i]  answer: num2 is larger
Signed:
if one positive, one negative  look at 1 bit
else
bit-wise compare same as unsigned

22. Unsigned Addition Standard Addition Function
• • •
Operands: w bits + v
• • •
True Sum: w+1 bits
u + v
• • •
Discard Carry: w bits
UAddw(u , v)
• • •
Standard Addition Function
Ignores carry output
Implements Modular Arithmetic
s = UAddw(u , v) = u + v mod 2w

23. Visualizing Integer Addition
4-bit integers u, v
Compute true sum Add4(u , v)
Values increase linearly with u and v
Forms planar surface
Add4(u , v) v u

24. Visualizing Unsigned Addition
Wraps Around
If true sum ≥ 2w
At most once
Overflow
UAdd4(u , v)
True Sum 2w
2w+1
Overflow v
Modular Sum u

25. Two’s Complement Additionu
• • •
Operands: w bits + v
• • •
True Sum: w+1 bits
u + v
• • •
Discard Carry: w bits
TAddw(u , v)
• • •
TAdd and UAdd have Identical Bit-Level Behavior
Signed vs. unsigned addition in C:
int s, t, u, v;
s = (int) ((unsigned) u + (unsigned) v);
t = u + v
Will give s == t

26. Characterizing TAdd Functionality True sum requires w+1 bits
Drop off MSB
Treat remaining bits as 2’s comp. integer
–2w –1
–2w
2w –1
2w–1
True Sum
TAdd Result
1 000…0
1 100…0
0 000…0
0 100…0
0 111…1
100…0
000…0
011…1
PosOver u v
< 0
> 0
NegOver
PosOver
TAdd(u , v)
NegOver
(NegOver)
(PosOver)

27. Two’s Complement Arithmetic: 4 bits
0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111

28. Visualizing 2’s Comp. Addition
NegOver
Values
4-bit two’s comp.
Range from -8 to +7
Wraps Around
If sum  2w–1
Becomes negative
At most once
If sum < –2w–1
Becomes positive
TAdd4(u , v) v u
PosOver

29. Detecting 2’s Comp. Overflow
Task
Given s = TAddw(u , v)
Determine if s = Addw(u , v)
Example
int s, u, v;
s = u + v;
Claim
Overflow iff either:
u, v < 0, s  0 (NegOver)
u, v  0, s < 0 (PosOver)
ovf = (u<0 == v<0) && (u<0 != s<0);
2w –1
2w–1
PosOver
NegOver

30. Multiplication Computing Exact Product of w-bit numbers x, y Ranges
Either signed or unsigned
Ranges
Unsigned: 0 ≤ x * y ≤ (2w – 1) 2 = 22w – 2w+1 + 1
Up to 2w bits
Two’s complement min: x * y ≥ (–2w–1)*(2w–1–1) = –22w–2 + 2w–1
Up to 2w–1 bits
Two’s complement max: x * y ≤ (–2w–1) 2 = 22w–2
Up to 2w bits, but only for (TMinw)2
Maintaining Exact Results
Would need to keep expanding word size with each product computed
Done in software by “arbitrary precision” arithmetic packages

31. Unsigned Multiplication in C
• • •
Operands: w bits * v
• • •
True Product: 2*w bits
u · v
• • •
• • •
UMultw(u , v)
• • •
Discard w bits: w bits
Standard Multiplication Function
Ignores high order w bits
Implements Modular Arithmetic
UMultw(u , v) = u · v mod 2w

32. Unsigned Multiplication: 4 bits
0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111

33. Unsigned vs. Signed Multiplication
Unsigned Multiplication
unsigned ux = (unsigned) x;
unsigned uy = (unsigned) y;
unsigned up = ux * uy
Truncates product to w-bit number up = UMultw(ux, uy)
Modular arithmetic: up = ux  uy mod 2w
Two’s Complement Multiplication
int x, y;
int p = x * y;
Compute exact product of two w-bit numbers x, y
Truncate result to w-bit number p = TMultw(x, y)

34. Signed Multiplication: 4 bits
0000
0001
0010
0011
0100
0101
0110
0111
1000
1001
1010
1011
1100
1101
1110
1111

35. Unsigned vs. Signed Multiplication
Unsigned Multiplication
unsigned ux = (unsigned) x;
unsigned uy = (unsigned) y;
unsigned up = ux * uy
Two’s Complement Multiplication
int x, y;
int p = x * y;
Relation
Signed multiplication gives same bit-level result as unsigned
up == (unsigned) p

36. Power-of-2 Multiply with Shift
Operation
u << k gives u * 2k
Both signed and unsigned
Examples
u << 3 == u * 8
u << 5 - u << 3 == u * 24
Most machines shift and add much faster than multiply
Compiler generates this code automatically k u
• • •
Operands: w bits * 2k
••• 1
•••
True Product: w+k bits
u · 2k
• • •
•••
UMultw(u , 2k)
•••
•••
Discard k bits: w bits
TMultw(u , 2k)

37. Unsigned Power-of-2 Divide with Shift
Quotient of Unsigned by Power of 2
u >> k gives  u / 2k 
Uses logical shift k u
Binary Point
•••
•••
Operands: / 2k
••• 1
•••
Division:
u / 2k .
•••
•••
•••
Result:
 u / 2k 
•••
•••

38. Signed Power-of-2 Divide with Shift
Quotient of Signed by Power of 2
x >> k gives  x / 2k 
Uses arithmetic shift
Rounds wrong direction when x < 0 1
••• x 2k /
x / 2k
Division:
Operands: k
RoundDown(x / 2k)
Result: .
Binary Point

39. Correct Power-of-2 Divide
Quotient of Negative Number by Power (k) of 2
Want  x / 2k  (Round Toward 0)
Compute as  (x+2k-1)/ 2k 
In C: (x<0 ?(x + (1<<k)-1):x) >> k
Biases dividend toward 0
Case 1: No rounding k
Dividend: u 1
•••
•••
+2k +–1
••• 1
••• 1 1
Binary Point 1
••• 1
••• 1 1
Divisor: / 2k
••• 1
•••
 u / 2k  . 1
••• 1 1 1
••• 1
••• 1 1
Biasing has no effect

40. Correct Power-of-2 Divide (Cont.)
Case 2: Rounding k
Dividend: x 1
•••
•••
+2k +–1
••• 1
••• 1 1 1
•••
•••
Incremented by 1
Binary Point
Divisor: / 2k
••• 1
•••
 x / 2k  . 1
••• 1 1 1
•••
•••
Biasing adds 1 to final result
Incremented by 1

41. Main points
Two standard encodings/representations: unsigned and signed (two’s complement)
Sign extension
Signed vs unsigned in C
Integer addition
Operation same for two encodings
Overflow computed differently for two encodings
Integer multiplication
Focused on mult/divide by powers of two
Encoding
Num of values for k bits
Min
Max
Unsigned 2k
2k -1
Signed
-2k-1
2k-1 -1