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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Expressions compared to zero in *c*
Message-ID: <699@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 20:36:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 20:36:33 1987
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> Does  (a-b) < 0  imply   a < b   ?  Pick a and b for controversy.

The Great FORTH comparison question makes it to 'C'...

> believe that the ANSI standard should define this can of worms or
> cop out with the usual "implementation defined"?
> 		jon kettenhofen, Motorola MCD, Tempe AZ

The latter.

It's just too much work to figure out an implementation independent way of
handling this.
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