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From: [email protected] (Rex Jaeschke)
Subject: Next Electronic Poll for Journal
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		Electronic Poll #3 - December 1989

Occasionally, I'll be conducting polls via electronic mail and
publishing the results in the Journal of C Language Translation. 
(Those polled will also receive an e-mail report on the results.)

ALL RESPONSES WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL AND NO COMPANIES OR INDIVIDUALS 
WILL BE IDENTIFIED WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.

Please answer the following questions for your current or planned C 
implementation(s). Add extra comments as you like plus suggestions for 
future poll questions. If you are not an implementer, answer as you 
see fit.

[Please reply to uunet!aussie!rex.  My DOS version of uucp doesn't
seem to have a better way to automate answers from a distribution
list, sorry.]


1.  How do you define NULL? Is the null constant pointer actually
represented as all-bits-zero? What different internal pointer
representations do you support?

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2.  Assuming you implement most of the goodies required/defined by
ANSI~C, how important is provable ANSI-conformance to your market
place? Not at all, somewhat, absolutely necessary.

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3.  Do you have a home-grown or commercial validation suite? If so,
which?

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4.  Is POSIX conformance an issue for you? What about IEEE support?

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5.  What do you see as the biggest shortcoming of the ANSI~C
Standard, as a language standard or in some missing functionality (in
the library or preprocessor, for example)?

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6.  Do you or will you implement long double with a different
representation than double? If so, will that make three different
floating-point representations or are float and double mapped the
same?

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Thanks for your input. I'd like your responses by January 12 please.

Rex

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