Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: minus zero strikes again Message-ID: <3586@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 12:58:33 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3586 Posted: Thu Jul 26 12:58:33 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 21:09:31 EDT References: <4133@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 5 I don't think "-0" at the source code level will cause any problem. I used to use ones' complement machines and the only way you could get a -0 out of an arithmetic expression was by having ones for an operand. In particular, negating 0 would give (normal) 0.