Why NULL is 0

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1323 at PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw at 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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