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Good, I didn't really understand Armin's point either :)

Here's a new version of the patch that pays a bit more attention to the 
comments (I changed my mind over a few details while writing it, I'm not 
entirely surprised that clarity suffered) and renames the sign member to 
long_sign -- but it turns out that you could find all references by searching 
for "->sign"...