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From: arnej@solan15.solan.unit.no (Arne Henrik Juul)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Multibyte character constants????
Keywords: Hackers of the world, unite!
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.221927.6823@idt.unit.no>
Date: 28 Jun 90 22:19:27 GMT
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We have stumbled across the subject of multibyte character
constants.  Is this defined anywhere?  For example, if we
say

main(){printf("%d\n",'AB');}

what should the output be?

We have used different compilers on different machines,
and all but one gave the same answer: 'A'*256+'B'= 16706
The odd one out was 'vcc', an ANSI complient compiler for
ULTRIX. It gave 'B'*256+'A' = 16961.

Just askin' - 

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