Re: this unsigned business

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 15:46

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In article <711@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US> friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl) writes:
>		if ( (unsigned int) vu > 100)

This is a bit arcane, but it is portable.  Both in a legalistic sense --
it is legal and proper ANSI C -- and in a practical sense -- this kind of
code has been in use for a long time (notably in the Unix kernel) and a
C compiler that botched it should have been noticed and fixed.
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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