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- From: jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: int's and zero
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:10:15 GMT
- Organization: TAEUS
- Message-ID: <4d41dk$o84@natasha.rmii.com>
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- clive@stdc.demon.co.uk (Clive D.W. Feather) wrote:
-
- >In article <4d12qv$fir@natasha.rmii.com>,
- >Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@rmii.com> wrote:
- >> Yes -- in one's complement, `-0' is represented with all bits set to 1.
- >> With one's complement, the usual method of testing for 0 is something
- >> like: `if (x+0 == 0)' since the addition of 0 normally produces a
- >> positive 0.
-
- >The C Standard requires +0 and -0 to compare equal to each other.
-
- Sorry. I should have been more explicit - the "something like" was
- meant to imply that this had to happen internally, not that it would be
- included in the source code.
- Later,
- Jerry.
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