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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Non-Portable pointer assignment?
Message-ID: <16358@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Jun 91 03:34:43 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.085138.21366@prl.dec.com> <1991Jun5.150527.22942@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <MCDANIEL.91Jun6111329@dolphin.adi.com>
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In article <MCDANIEL.91Jun6111329@dolphin.adi.com> mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel) writes:
>It is HIGHLY disconcerting to discover that a "character constant" is not of
>type char, and an "enumeration constant" is not of its enumerated type.

Disconcerting or no, both kinds of constants have been of type int since
they were first introduced.  (I.e. X3J11 didn't invent this.)