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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Beating a dead horse
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 13:52:16 EDT
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> 2) There seems to be (again, I am inferring this) an extraordinary amount
> of vagueness regarding the properties of integers.

This is because C is, above all, a language in which one can write efficient
code.  This means that the properties of integers in a given implementation
have to match those of the machine fairly closely, and the machines vary!

> Is there an overflow exception or not?  What about divide-by-zero?

My machine has neither.  Some have both.  So the answer is "maybe".
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"There is only one spacefaring        Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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