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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics
Message-ID: <10759@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 29 Aug 89 02:31:32 GMT
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In article <10859@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>If you were to consider EBCDIC's 8-bit bytes as signed, then the codes
>for '0' .. '9' would appear in descending order.  That's not excessively
>unreasonable.

Nope; they're still ascending.  That (along with big-endianness) is why
a Fortran-66 program could read into an integer using A4 format and get
correct results.

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