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		dataflow on April 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Summary of C/C++ integer rules >> Character literals (in single quotes) have the type (signed) int in C, but (signed or unsigned) char in C++. > That's not correct. In C++, the type of a character literal is simply char, never signed char nor unsigned char. I'd assume the author meant (signed `char` \| unsigned `char`) rather than (`signed char` \| `unsigned char`).

nayuki on April 4, 2021 [–]

To put it better, I meant to write that C++ character literals have type `char`, which in turn maps to either `signed char` or `unsigned char`.

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