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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: NULL pointer
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 08:22:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 08:22:25 1985
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> that "casts were not conversions", and that casting something to another
> type was the same as treating the old object's *bit-pattern* as if
> it was the new type with the same *bit-pattern*.  I don't know if it still
> claims this, as this was several years ago.

Last I heard (and I may be wrong: someone ripped off my K&R), (int)1.0 had
the value 1, not 0104000000000 or whatever.  The DECUS 'C' compiler also
had a broken floating point package, and I wonder if that's related.
-- 
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