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From: jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: all bits zero?
Message-ID: <568@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 22 Mar 90 08:17:52 GMT
References: <16237@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <16237@haddock.ima.isc.com>, by karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer):
> 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?
> 
> Assuming it's not in a pointer context--in which case it would have been a
> null pointer constant, not an integer constant, despite having the same
> spelling--yes.  Non-negative integers, signed or unsigned, whether formed by

And how about floats/double-s? I know the IEEE standard says that an exponent
of all zeroes signifies the number 0.0, but how about other float notations?