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floats being IEEE compliant is optional by the language standards. Otherwise the bit representation is not specified.

• deleted 4y ago
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• mgaunard 4y ago
  It still requires 0 to be represented as all bits set to zero.
  • leni536 4y ago
    Where does the ISO C standard say so? edit: https://cigix.me/c17#6.2.6.1.p1 https://cigix.me/c17#6.2.6.1.p1 seems relevant, I did not find anything for floating point types. edit2: Notes are probably not normative, but still: https://cigix.me/c17#footnote301 https://cigix.me/c17#footnote301
    • vmilner 4y ago
      That footnote confirms the traditional position that a floating point zero need NOT have an all-zero bit representation.