integer value of multi-char constants

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <20205 at mimsy.umd.edu>, chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> The machines listed above all form two-character constants by computing
> (more or less) c0*256+c1 (or c1*256+c0), where c0 and c1 are the first
> and second characters in the constant.  Hence '\001\177' is 0x17f and
> '\000\177' is 0x07f.  It would be very strange for these to be equal.

Maybe I am just being real dense, but how does this explain the authors question
that on the same machine

	'\001\377' == '\000\377';

By your explanation this should be 

	0x1ff      ==  0x0ff

Which seems wrong to me.
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