Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:53:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [Q]: unsigned char
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> >I think you are missing the fact that '\xFD' is NOT a character constant, 
> >it's an int.  Therefore, -funsigned-char doesn't affect it.
> 
> Howcome '\xFD' isn't a character constant?  Doesn't something inside single
> quotes (') mean that it is a character constant?

Sorry, my wording was misleading.  What I meant to say was that
according to ANSI C Standard, a character constant's type is int, not
char.  In fact, no expression can ever have char as its type (except
if you cast it explicitly, I think), and a character constant is an
(rvalue) expression.