'Nother possible Stego place...

Stephen Humble deeb at meceng.coe.neu.edu
Wed Mar 2 11:15:09 PST 1994


"Alan (Miburi-san) Wexelblat" <wex at media.mit.edu> sez:
> It's a bit of a hack, but don't most char implementations in C just
> ignore the high-order bit?

No.  A char in C is signed or unsigned according to the whim of the
compiler designer, but all bits are significant.  Some UN*X editors
have a nasty habit of nuking the high bit.  Vi frequently does, GNU
emacs doesn't.

Stephen






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