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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BSD bzero() & NULL
Message-ID: <14518@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 90 01:57:05 GMT
References: <3764@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <3764@skye.ed.ac.uk), by richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin):
) In article <RJC.90Nov15073451@brodie.uk.ac.ed.cstr) rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley) writes:
))Does the standard demand that the bit pattern for then integer 0 be
))`all zeros'.
) 
) 3.1.2.5 (Types):
)   [ "Blah blah blah blah blah," omited. ]
) 
) The intention is to allow 2s and 1s complement.

Makes you wonder why the hell they didn't say that, doesn't it?
I think standards committees must take courses in wind-production.