Multibyte character constants????

[Arne Henrik Juul]

We have stumbled across the subject of multibyte character
constants.  Is this defined anywhere?  For example, if we
say

main(){printf("%d\n",'AB');}

what should the output be?

We have used different compilers on different machines,
and all but one gave the same answer: 'A'*256+'B'= 16706
The odd one out was 'vcc', an ANSI complient compiler for
ULTRIX. It gave 'B'*256+'A' = 16961.

Just askin' - 

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