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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Multiple character "character constants"
Message-ID: <3056@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 10:41:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  8 10:41:17 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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Troff uses two-character character constants for the same reason it
uses two characters for everything:  they happen to fit nicely into
an int on a PDP-11.  This makes troff fit on a PDP-11.  (It also speeds
things up considerably over using two "char"s.)
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