Non-Portable pointer assignment?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <MCDANIEL.91Jun6111329 at dolphin.adi.com> mcdaniel at 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.)