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Article #3110Re: Non-Portable pointer assignment?
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1991 03:34
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1991 03:34
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In article <MCDANIEL.91Jun6111329@dolphin.adi.com> mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel) writes: >It is HIGHLY disconcerting to discover that a "character constant" is not of >type char, and an "enumeration constant" is not of its enumerated type. Disconcerting or no, both kinds of constants have been of type int since they were first introduced. (I.e. X3J11 didn't invent this.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Non-Portable pointer assignment? Message-ID: <16358@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 8 Jun 91 03:34:43 GMT References: <1991Jun5.085138.21366@prl.dec.com> <1991Jun5.150527.22942@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <MCDANIEL.91Jun6111329@dolphin.adi.com> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 6