>I just tried

? -0x00000001

and VFP shows it as -1. At least it works in VFP.


This is not doing what you think, it is evaluating 0x00000001 and then applying the unary negation operator to the result.

? transform(-0x00000001, "@0")	&& **********
? transform(0x00000001, "@0")	&& 0x00000001
? transform(0xffffffff, "@0")	&& 0xffffffff