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Article #769Re: integer value of multi-char constants
From: Conor P. Cahill
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 13:03
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 13:03
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In article <20205@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: > The machines listed above all form two-character constants by computing > (more or less) c0*256+c1 (or c1*256+c0), where c0 and c1 are the first > and second characters in the constant. Hence '\001\177' is 0x17f and > '\000\177' is 0x07f. It would be very strange for these to be equal. Maybe I am just being real dense, but how does this explain the authors question that on the same machine '\001\377' == '\000\377'; By your explanation this should be 0x1ff == 0x0ff Which seems wrong to me. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!virtech!cpcahil From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: integer value of multi-char constants Message-ID: <1286@virtech.UUCP> Date: 17 Oct 89 13:03:27 GMT References: <29588@gumby.mips.COM> <20205@mimsy.umd.edu> Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc Lines: 21