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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: unsigned char -> unsigned int conversion
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Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 02:24:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  2 02:24:20 1984
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Like most such bugs, the "short int" problem was fixed long ago.
I just tried it on our (UNIX System V) Ritchie PDP-11 C compiler.