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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: # to the nth power
Message-ID: <14380@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Nov 90 11:29:41 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.182217.13958@NCoast.ORG> <ENAG.90Nov3145415@hild.ifi.uio.no> <1990Nov3.204327.19057@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1990Nov3.204327.19057@NCoast.ORG> catfood@NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
>You are simply not allowed to assume *anything* about the internal
>representation of integers if your programs are to be 100% portable ANSI.

Hey, that's not true.  Look it up.