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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Character constants
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Message-ID: <217@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Feb 89 18:53:59 GMT
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In article <1783@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> scm@datlog.co.uk ( Steve Mawer ) writes:
>Not if he knows the C language.  A single character written within
>single quotes is a *character constant*.  This isn't an int.

K&R, p180:
  The value of a character constant is the numerical value of the
  character in the machine's character set.

Draft proposed ANSI standard (May 13, 1988) Section 3.1.3.4 (p29):
  An integer character constant has type int.

["integer character constant" constrasts with "wide character constant"]

-- Richard

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