>> Of the tools supplied with NetBSD that are capable of performing
>> arbitrary arithmetic, awk seems to be the only one that prints
>> negative zero as the result from simple calculations:
>> [sh $(()), expr, bc, dc, awk]
> [similar results from a sun4u with SunOS 5.8, and HP-UX]

Of these, sh $(()) and expr do integer arithmetic only, so they don't
need even be considered when worrying about floating-point hardware
things like negative zero.  I'm not sure about bc and dc, but I think
they do their own floating-point by working with strings of digits,
rather than using the hardware's floating-point support, in which case
this is relevant to their implementation of zero but not to hardware
issues.

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