Aunc.839 NET.v7-bugs utzoo!duke!unc!smb Tue May 26 10:39:56 1981 casts and constants The Ritchie C compiler does not treat the construct (char) 100 as a constant. This means that statements like switch(c) { case (char) 0x80: foobar(); are illegal. The Portable C compiler on the 11, and the VAX C compiler do not suffer from this problem.