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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Null revisited (briefly)
Keywords: NULL
Message-ID: <5984@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 89 05:26:03 GMT
References: <13068@steinmetz.ge.com> <102@servio.UUCP> <10138@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <1783@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> <1095@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1095@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>Wrong.  '\0' *is* the same as 0.

Isn't it possible to postulate the existence of a bizarre 1's
complement machine in which the lexical analyzer produces
binary 00000000000000000000000000000000 when it sees the
character 0, but 11111111111111111111111111111111 when it
sees the sequence '\0'?
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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