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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: down
Message-ID: <9160@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:08:41 GMT
References: <gables.352@umigw.miami.edu> <9142@smoke.BRL.MIL> <45472@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <45472@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) writes:
>Doesn't the expression (c = getchar()) have type (int) regardless of the
>type of c?  Or will c being a char really prevent this comparison?

Doesn't matter; the important point is that wedging the int value
returned by getchar() through a char knothole loses information.