Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hpfclq!kah From: kah@hpfclq.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Is mixing char and int types as para Message-ID: <72300002@hpfclq.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 16:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfclq.72300002 Posted: Tue Mar 13 16:57:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 03:04:12 EST References: <5734@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #R:mcvax:-573400:hpfclq:72300002:000:264 Nf-From: hpfclq!kah Mar 27 13:57:00 1984 Re: Mixing characters and integers as parameters. This is NOT portable, because it depends on how a char is widened to an integer: with sign extension or not, and this is machine dependent. See K&R, sec. 6.1 of the C Reference Manual. kathy harris (hpfcla!kah)