AVR-Chat

Ralph Hilton wrote:

>>On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:46 -0400, Aaron wrote:
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>>>if I write:
>>>   putchar ("U")   ; transmit ascii U out the serial port
>>>it throws a "possible loss of precision" warning and actually
>>>transmits 
>>>ascii 8.
>>>What am I missing?
>>>      
>>>
>
>"U" is a string.
>'U' is a character.
>  
>
Still trying to remember my C classes from 7 years ago...

Not that it really matters, but how does "U" evaluate to 0x38?

Aaron