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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: bit patterns of all ones
Message-ID: <5574@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 01:43:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 28 01:43:22 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 05:49:37 EST
References: <1382@hoptoad.uucp> <690001@hplsla.HP.COM> <1987Jan26.132135.9624@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1987Jan26.132135.9624@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
># The values of integral types shall be interpreted in a pure
># binary numeration system.
>
>I see no "as if" here, and cannot make out that one is implied.

I think we're quibbling over inessentials here.  Does use of
"interpreted in" imply "internally represented in" or "as if
internally represented in"?  I think the latter, but the
important point is that the underlying "abstract machine"
that executes the C program must behave like a binary one.