BSD bzero() & NULL

Dave Jones djones at megatest.UUCP
Thu Nov 22 12:57:05 AEST 1990


>From article <3764 at skye.ed.ac.uk), by richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin):
) In article <RJC.90Nov15073451 at brodie.uk.ac.ed.cstr) rjc at uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley) writes:
))Does the standard demand that the bit pattern for then integer 0 be
))`all zeros'.
) 
) 3.1.2.5 (Types):
)   [ "Blah blah blah blah blah," omited. ]
) 
) The intention is to allow 2s and 1s complement.

Makes you wonder why the hell they didn't say that, doesn't it?
I think standards committees must take courses in wind-production.



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