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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability vs. Endianness
Message-ID: <2659@ksr.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 18:18:25 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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.

oops.