Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: minus zero strikes again Message-ID: <505@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jul-84 07:54:14 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.505 Posted: Sat Jul 28 07:54:14 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 01:20:38 EDT Lines: 8 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)Upon further reflection, I realize that a C implementer on a 1's-complemenet machine may have made a mistake and implemented negation (unary minus) by ones'-complementing the (integer) value instead of correctly subtracting it from zero, so Henry's query amounts to asking whether any C implementer on a 1's-complement machine was so foolish.