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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: wchar_t values
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.065249.25920@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 06:52:49 GMT
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In article <15640@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <990@sranha.sra.co.jp> erik@sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
>>Which of the following two conditions is the correct interpretation of
>>the ANSI C standard:
>>	('c' == L'c')
>>	('c' == ((char) L'c'))
>Neither one, although the first one is close.  The numerical values
>of these two (possibly distinct) integer types shall be the same.

Huh?  When they have the same numerical value and both are integer types,
how is it possible for them to not compare equal?
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.