type cast in initializer

[Dan Franklin]

In article <3154 at umcp-cs.UUCP> Chris Torek writes:

> In article <354 at utastro.UUCP> nather at utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:

> >In article <792 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> >The values of '\377' and -1 are one and the same without a type cast.

> Yes---*if* your machine has signed `char's.

AND if your machine has eight-bit bytes...

	Dan Franklin