Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.lang.c Subject: Re: unsigned char -> unsigned int conversion Message-ID: <3973@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:31:45 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3973 Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:31:45 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:31:45 EDT References: <3961@utzoo.UUCP>, <790@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 20 Morris Keesan asks, in discussion of the C Reference Manual: > ..........elsewhere it implies the existence of "unsigned long" in > some implementations. ............. but where "elsewhere" does it "imply" unsigned long? Section 4 of the K&R CRM notes: ... (On the PDP-11, unsigned long quantities are not supported.) ... Also, the problem he reports (V7 cc bounces "short int" because it's just translating "short" to "int" everywhere) is present in the vanilla V7 cc as well as the BBN one. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry