type cast in initializer

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Wed Feb 12 13:04:50 AEST 1986


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:
>> C note of the day: 'x' is of type (int), not (char).
>The values of '\377' and -1 are one and the same without a type cast.

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