Subj : Re: Win98 error To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB]) Date : Tue Mar 16 2004 08:20 pm Bob Gonder writes: > Whereas you demonstrated > BYTE const b27 > Your contention was that '27' (the define) is an 'int' and that ByteB > would be promoted (it wasn't). It was. At the language level. The compiler just did a good job at optimizing. .