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i thought that was one of the areas where the rules had changed with ANSI C
and assumed ken thompson had implemented the rules he knew!


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Subject: Re: [9fans] another compiler bug (another try to send this coherently)
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:16:38 GMT

Mike Haertel wrote:
> The unsigned char is _supposed_ to be promoted to signed int.

That is true, and I'm surprised that the compiler would get it
wrong.  One wonders where else the integer promotions aren't
done right.
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