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[Deirdre Saoirse]

At 4:09 PM -0400 7/8/99, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Charles A. Jolley wrote:
>> Changing the single ticks to quotes will most definitely introduce errors,
>> though, because that will cause the compiler to produce a 32-bit pointer to
>> a NULL terminated string "frac", rather than a 32-bit value equal to the
>> four characters 'frac'.  This can be particularly deadly in code where types
>> are explicitly cast because it is still a 32-bit value either way.
>
>Just hoping for a quick fix... =)

Try treating the four-char constant as a four-byte integer instead. That's
really how it's represented in the MacOS. :)

Think of it as an undotted quad. :)


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