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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0
Message-ID: <7792@alice.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 13:40:03 GMT
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In article <10229@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP writes:

> People (usually ;>) have no problem with the idea the while assigning a
> zero to a float gives it the vaule 0.0, in most implementations the
> float value does not have all bits set to zero.

I am overwhelmed by curiosity.  Can you give me examples of
three machine architectures in which the floating-point value
0 does not have all its bits set to zero?