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Frank Schmid wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:
BW>>     cout << "The value of /a is " << (char)'/a' << endl;
BW>> Borland will send a backslash.  Microsoft, the letter a.
> That is strange, there is no backslash involved, I only see forward
> slashes.
 FS> I don't think this is strange.
With strange I was referring to his incorrect usage of the word "backslash".
 FS> Normally ints are stored with LOW-BYTE first,   then HIGH-BYTE 
That's a bit of an over-generalization. You should make no assumptions about 
the internal binary representation of ints. In fact, a lot of systems store 
them the other way round. Don't assume everybody uses Intel(-clones).
When you provoke undefined behaviour, you can expect undefined behaviour. 
This is a perfect example of that.
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs@village.uunet.be
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