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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Conversion of unsigned long to double
Message-ID: <17056@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 14:43:33 GMT
References: <515@bsiao.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <515@bsiao.UUCP> tvdl@bsiao.UUCP (Timo van der Laan) writes:
>The C-compiler for IX370 (running on a 9370 machine) treats an
>unsigned long as a signed long if that unsigned long is assigned to
>a double. (See the program below).

>Is this behavior permitted in ANSI?

No; but this mistake is easy to make when building a compiler.  4.2BSD
had the same bug.
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