Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <3b6d2f36@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>
> For example, would you consider the legal code ISO C/C++ "long I =
'abcd';"
> worth a (by default on) warning?

Yes, definitely. Although it's legal, it is implementation-defined
(i.e. the characters are mapped into the execution character set
in the implementation-defined manner). BTW, that's the reason
behind the MKFOURCC macro in Windows.h.

That's especially important for POV-Ray. Just imagine porting code with
that constant to, say, ancient Honeywell Bull with 36-bit chars...

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