From uunet.UU.NET!aussie!rex Wed Nov 22 12:22:10 EST 1989 Received: from aussie.UUCP by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP id AA15817; Wed, 22 Nov 89 22:00:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 89 12:22:10 EST From: aussie!rex@uunet.UU.NET (Rex Jaeschke) Subject: Next Electronic Poll for Journal Message-Id: <8911221222.18.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> To: aussie!d-epoll@uunet.UU.NET Cc: aussie!aussie!rex@uunet.UU.NET 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? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 3. Do you have a home-grown or commercial validation suite? If so, which? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 4. Is POSIX conformance an issue for you? What about IEEE support? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 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)? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 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? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Thanks for your input. I'd like your responses by January 12 please. Rex ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******** NEW POSTAL ADDRESS EFFECTIVE OCT 16th ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rex Jaeschke | C Users Journal | Journal of C Language Translation (703) 860-0091 | DEC PROFESSIONAL | 2051 Swans Neck Way uunet!aussie!rex | Programmers Journal | Reston, Virginia 22091, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener of the Numerical C Extensions Group (NCEG) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------