casts and constants

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From: uncsmb
Date: Tue, 26 May 1981 10:39

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The Ritchie C compiler does not treat the construct

	(char) 100

as a constant.  This means that statements like

	switch(c) {
		case (char) 0x80:	foobar();

are illegal.  The Portable C compiler on the 11, and the VAX C compiler
do not suffer from this problem.

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From: unc!smb
Newsgroups: NET.v7-bugs
Subject: casts and constants
Date: Tue, 26 May 1981 10:39:56 +0000
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