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From: rob@pla... rob@pla...
Subject: [9fans] new german book about plan9
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:30:58 -0400

There is a section in the French introduction wondering why something like
	print("%c\n", 'û');
can work.  It is indeed a little surprising, but in any case we
recently changed the compiler to warn not only when a character
constant overflows, but also if it turns on a sign bit (that is, if it
overflows one bit sooner).  This program now draws a warning.  It also
still works....

-rob