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Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference?

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Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:

> Character constants are of type int, not char in the standard (ignoring
> wide character constants, which might be of other types, such as char).
> But in which situations does this make a real difference? The only one I
> can think of now is generic selections.

Well, sizeof 'x' is not defined to be 1 as it would be if 'x' was of
type char, but I can't any reason to use that form so I doubt that
counts as a real difference.

-- 
Ben.

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When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2015-10-24 17:05 +0200
  Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-24 16:55 +0100
  Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-24 15:59 +0000
  Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-24 17:16 +0100
    Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-24 12:41 -0400
    Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-24 17:50 +0100
    Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-24 13:05 -0700
      Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-24 22:09 +0100
        Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-10-26 06:15 +0000
          Re: When does the type of a character constant make a difference? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-26 09:07 +0000

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