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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: integer value of multi-char constants
Message-ID: <957@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 17 Oct 89 12:44:32 GMT
References: <29588@gumby.mips.COM> <20205@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: minow@mountn.enet.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <29588@gumby.mips.COM> lai@mips.COM (David Lai) writes:
>on a mips, vax, and sun the following is true:
>	'\001\377' == '\000\377';
>however on the same machines:
>	'\001\177' != '\000\177';
>The question is: does the above behaviour conform to ANSI C?

Don't know if it conforms, but both are not equal on a Vax/VMS system
running Vax-C.

Martin Minow
minow@thundr.enet.dec.com