/* portably return maximum value for an int (when limits.h presumed not
available) -- we need to do this to cover cases where 2's complement not
used, since C standard permits 1's complement and sign-bit representations,
otherwise we could just use ((unsigned)-1) >> 1 */
/* portably return maximum value for an int (when limits.h presumed not
available) -- we need to do this to cover cases where 2's complement not
used, since C standard permits 1's complement and sign-bit representations,
otherwise we could just use ((unsigned)-1) >> 1 */