Quote without comment on char constant expansion

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Thu Apr 14 09:16:26 AEST 1988


In article <3432 at haddock.ISC.COM> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>The original problem showed up in BSD <sys/ioctl.h>.  I would recommend that
>this header be fixed as shown by the example below.

The important thing is that this can be fixed NOW -- you don't have
to wait for an ANSI C compliant compiler to apply the suggested fix.
Then when 4BSD switches to an ANSI C compiler this wouldn't break.



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