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Re: Why Use 'Int' Instead of 'Long'? (With today's compilers)

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:14
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ok@cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:

>mcv@pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) writes:
>>What would EOF have to be defined as?  

>>(-1 might be the glyph ISO+FFFFFFFF CUNEIFORM SYLLABLE ZUT!)

>(a) The C standard *nowhere* says that EOF is -1, only that it is negative.

I know.  I was merely giving -1 as an example of a possible value for
EOF.  It just happens that, unlike the "ZUT" glyph, -1 as EOF also
actually exists "in the real world".

>(b) Work is in progress to include cuneiform in Unicode.  It's a while since
>    I read about it, but it was going to fit into the BMP.

As an amateur Hittitologist, that's nice to hear.


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