Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0
Message-ID: <10281@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 6 Apr 88 13:43:47 GMT
References: <2550049@hpisod2.HP.COM> <7412@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3351@chinet.UUCP> <10229@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> <1323@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1323@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:

|   I do believe IEEE and Vax's version of float is a bit pattern
| consisting of all zeros.  So what are these implementations that don't
| use zero bit pattern?

  Honeywell 600 and DPS series for sure (0.0 = 0400000000), I believe
some IBM minis, and some Data General. Like "pointer same as int," it
works on many machines but assumes a hardware dependency which may be
avoided by careful typing.
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