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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics
Message-ID: <24FD69D9.12F@marob.masa.com>
Date: 31 Aug 89 17:24:39 GMT
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In article <10870@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <10759@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond) writes:
>>Nope; they're still ascending.
>
>Oops, I stand corrected.  The magnitudes are descending but the values
>(being negative) are ascending.  Oh well, it was just an example.


Does the pANS still guarantee that the chars used in C programming (letters,
numbers, !@#$%^&*()_+ etc.) are non-negative?  K&R-1 made such a guarantee,
and it seems to be true on all "real" machines.  Only signed-byte machines
using EBCDIC and machines that use neither ASCII nor EBCDIC would violate
this rule.
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