What is the type of a '1' constant in C? Before any promotions. Is it a char or an int?
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`1` is `int`, `'1'` is `int` too. – pmg Sep 04 '20 at 11:30
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In C chars are ascii ints – georgeok Sep 04 '20 at 11:32
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@pmg The dupe is spot on. Appreciate it. – Ron Sep 04 '20 at 11:39
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2To actually answer _why_, it probably got to do with C not having much in the way of a type system back in the days, so they treated everything as `int`. – Lundin Sep 04 '20 at 11:57