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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Null revisited (briefly)
Message-ID: <9767@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Mar 89 14:55:05 GMT
References: <13068@steinmetz.ge.com> <102@servio.UUCP> <10138@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <1783@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> <1095@auspex.UUCP> <5984@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5984@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
-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'?

Only if all computations made with the -0 value are indistinguishable
from those made with the 0 value.  (This includes bitwise operations!)