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From: martin@mwtech.uucp (Martin Weitzel)
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Subject: Re: How to convert a char into an int from 0 through 255?
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From: martin@mwtech.uucp (Martin Weitzel)

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In article <7544@cs.utexas.edu> Dan Bernstein <stealth.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd@longway.tic.com> writes:
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>handle machines with more than 256 characters. There's no compile-time
>way to find the right bit pattern---UCHAR_MAX + 1 may not be a power of
>two.

Look at my recent posting about a portable 'offsetof()'-Makro.
The general principle outlined there, is almost allways usable
in any situation, where you have a way to solve a problem at
run time, but you need the answer at compile time.

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