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- From: actuary@nando.net@castle.nando.net (Bill McCarthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Recursion
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:12:10 -0400
- Organization: Not so good, but I'm working on it ;-)
- Message-ID: <aFvbxUKSAuje089yn@castle.nando.net>
- References: <31624BC2.70D2@sooner.net> <4k0nlv$hn6@linet06.li.net>
- <4kmm8f$ibd@sun001.spd.dsccc.com>
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- In article <4kmm8f$ibd@sun001.spd.dsccc.com>,
- jmccarty@sun1307.spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty) put down for all to see:
-
- >In article <4k0nlv$hn6@linet06.li.net>,
- >Jeremy Markman <jeremy@newshost.li.net> wrote:
- >
- >[stuff cut]
- >
- >) value += string[0] - '0';
- >
- >Why is it that everyone who starts writing these conversion routines
- >assume two things:
- >
- > ASCII character set
- > overflow doesn't matter
- >
- >Hum?
-
- Huh?
-
- What's the problem, Mike? In 5.2.1 it states that "the value of each
- character after 0 in the above list of decimal digits shall be one
- greater than the value of the previous." This MUST be true for both
- the source and execution character sets.
-
- Bill
-