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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics
Message-ID: <2158@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 31 Aug 89 17:41:05 GMT
References: <2128@infmx.UUCP> <4700042@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Aug25.185428.3511@utzoo.uucp> <609@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <10831@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1392@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <10859@smoke.BRL.MIL> <10759@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <10870@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <10870@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Oops, I stand corrected.  The magnitudes are descending but the values
>(being negative) are ascending.  Oh well, it was just an example.

If chars are unsigned, they will not be negative (butterfly order :-).
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Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.oz.au