Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: all bits zero?
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.174340.5072@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2108@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 90 17:43:40 GMT

In article <2108@gmdzi.UUCP> wittig@gmdzi.UUCP (Georg Wittig) writes:
>Does ANSI C require that in the internal representation of the integer constant
>``0'' all bits are zero?

For integers, ANSI C essentially demands this.
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