type cast in initializer

[Ed Nather]

In article <792 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:

> C note of the day: 'x' is of type (int), not (char).

*sigh*  -- thanks, Doug.  I just found that out yesterday, the hard way.
The values of '\377' and -1 are one and the same without a type cast.
Now, if I'd just read the news, instead of debugging ...
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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