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1.1     ! root        1: From uunet.UU.NET!aussie!rex Wed Nov 22 12:22:10 EST 1989
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        !             4: Date: Wed, 22 Nov 89 12:22:10 EST
        !             5: From: [email protected] (Rex Jaeschke)
        !             6: Subject: Next Electronic Poll for Journal
        !             7: Message-Id: <8911221222.18.UUL1.3#[email protected]>
        !             8: To: [email protected]
        !             9: Cc: [email protected]
        !            10: 
        !            11:                Electronic Poll #3 - December 1989
        !            12: 
        !            13: Occasionally, I'll be conducting polls via electronic mail and
        !            14: publishing the results in the Journal of C Language Translation. 
        !            15: (Those polled will also receive an e-mail report on the results.)
        !            16: 
        !            17: ALL RESPONSES WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL AND NO COMPANIES OR INDIVIDUALS 
        !            18: WILL BE IDENTIFIED WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.
        !            19: 
        !            20: Please answer the following questions for your current or planned C 
        !            21: implementation(s). Add extra comments as you like plus suggestions for 
        !            22: future poll questions. If you are not an implementer, answer as you 
        !            23: see fit.
        !            24: 
        !            25: [Please reply to uunet!aussie!rex.  My DOS version of uucp doesn't
        !            26: seem to have a better way to automate answers from a distribution
        !            27: list, sorry.]
        !            28: 
        !            29: 
        !            30: 1.  How do you define NULL? Is the null constant pointer actually
        !            31: represented as all-bits-zero? What different internal pointer
        !            32: representations do you support?
        !            33: 
        !            34: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            35: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            36: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            37: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            38: 
        !            39: 2.  Assuming you implement most of the goodies required/defined by
        !            40: ANSI~C, how important is provable ANSI-conformance to your market
        !            41: place? Not at all, somewhat, absolutely necessary.
        !            42: 
        !            43: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            44: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            45: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            46: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            47: 
        !            48: 3.  Do you have a home-grown or commercial validation suite? If so,
        !            49: which?
        !            50: 
        !            51: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            52: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            53: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            54: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            55: 
        !            56: 4.  Is POSIX conformance an issue for you? What about IEEE support?
        !            57: 
        !            58: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            59: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            60: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            61: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            62: 
        !            63: 5.  What do you see as the biggest shortcoming of the ANSI~C
        !            64: Standard, as a language standard or in some missing functionality (in
        !            65: the library or preprocessor, for example)?
        !            66: 
        !            67: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            68: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            69: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            70: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            71: 
        !            72: 6.  Do you or will you implement long double with a different
        !            73: representation than double? If so, will that make three different
        !            74: floating-point representations or are float and double mapped the
        !            75: same?
        !            76: 
        !            77: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            78: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            79: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            80: ____________________________________________________________________
        !            81: 
        !            82: 
        !            83: 
        !            84: Thanks for your input. I'd like your responses by January 12 please.
        !            85: 
        !            86: Rex
        !            87: 
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        !            91: Rex Jaeschke     | C Users Journal     |  Journal of C Language Translation
        !            92: (703) 860-0091   | DEC PROFESSIONAL    |         2051 Swans Neck Way
        !            93: uunet!aussie!rex | Programmers Journal |     Reston, Virginia 22091, USA
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        !            95: Convener of the Numerical C Extensions Group (NCEG)
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