on the use of char

[Stefan Teleman]

And any decent compiler has an option to set the default signedness of 
'char' at compile time.

If any <FONT STYLE="CENSORED">particular</FONT> compiler
doesn't have this option, please complain to the compiler writers. :-)

--Stefan

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On Friday 30 July 2004 10:05, Michael Matz wrote:
> Don't know what you want to say with this.  "unsigned char" and
> "signed char" are perfectly defined.  Only "char" has the problem
> of platform dependend signedness.
>
> And just for completeness (because sometimes people are mislead by
> the above): this _only_ is true for "char".  "short", "int" and
> "long" are signed by definition.

-- 
Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman at nyc.rr.com                          -Monty Python