Conversion of unsigned long to double

Sun Apr 23 00:43:33 AEST 1989

In article <515 at bsiao.UUCP> tvdl at bsiao.UUCP (Timo van der Laan) writes:
>The C-compiler for IX370 (running on a 9370 machine) treats an
>unsigned long as a signed long if that unsigned long is assigned to
>a double. (See the program below).

>Is this behavior permitted in ANSI?

No; but this mistake is easy to make when building a compiler.  4.2BSD
had the same bug.
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