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From: dan@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA (Dan Franklin)
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Subject: Re:  type cast in initializer
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 11:18:16 EST
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In article <3154@umcp-cs.UUCP> Chris Torek writes:

> In article <354@utastro.UUCP> nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:

> >In article <792@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> >The values of '\377' and -1 are one and the same without a type cast.

> Yes---*if* your machine has signed `char's.

AND if your machine has eight-bit bytes...

	Dan Franklin