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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability vs. Endianness
Message-ID: <15457@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Mar 91 21:13:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.105451.19488@dit.upm.es> <2628@ksr.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <2628@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>This code is guaranteed.

"Famous last words."

In fact, it is not guaranteed on a host that uses ones-complement
or sign-magnitude integral representation.