Re: possible overflow?

Willem wrote
(in article <slrndh5cbr.1r37.willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> Peter wrote:
>> Your assumption of ASCII is not required since the C language requires
>> the characters '0'..'9' be consecutive codings [although it does not
>> require the same for 'a'..'z' or 'A'..'Z'.]
>
> I wasn't aware of that, so I stuck with the safer explanation of ASCII,
> which fails on 80% of all enterprise systems...

You owe me a new keyboard. :-)


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