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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...
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"Joel C. Salomon" wrote:
> Also recall that sizeof('c') == sizeof(int).  I suspect, though, that
> literals like 'abcd' are left from the B (word-addressable, not
> byte-addressable) days.

Yes, in C ordinary character constants have always had type int.
Multi-character constants were used in the first C version of "troff",
for one example, so the language permits them even though their use
has nonportable aspects.