Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:06:30 -0600 Message-ID: <4F280377.2EDA@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:06:31 -0500 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: bitwise operators(info) References: <96da10c2-5084-44fe-a0b1-dfd3d145e36f@eb6g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <42dacbf3-7657-44e2-b9b8-1be8e49651f8@t8g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <0.e41cbc1eedd06ab4387e.20120128113315GMT.874nvg3vus.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <0.2835a3ac4e2fe672524d.20120128224118GMT.87r4yj30xd.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <5275606b-2eef-4e1d-9bd5-7ad2b454778e@x6g2000pbk.googlegroups.com> <1dc09d6b-8ea7-4122-905d-c57baf27e673@w4g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <0.607f527ed9c598351925.20120131143011GMT.878vkoq70s.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.223.147 X-Trace: sv3-veLO0nyEvh8A+4rPZEj/O1BYlp7BU1XViBpn7cljRkrkY8UYJ6/BKIfcABlk3AazsIPVjtku4wYcCGu!fWGheK8BMAiQFuB3S8qHq9p8D1Nc8Vtm3IR79Pbm0/LFMkJpSa/09IaFVjbY43F7uoseWB6xylxa!OT/okHQ9oTA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2048 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:16495 Ben Bacarisse wrote: > [1] I don't want to get into an argument as to whether -0 is a > "nonnegative value" for the purposes of 6.5.7p4. I was wondering about that. I think that negative zero is not a negative value. But I think that for the purposes of bitwise operators, it might make more sense to consider negative zero as a negative value. -- pete