char is not signed char

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> "David L Thompson" writes:

David> Has anybody else noticed that char is not signed char but unsigend
David> char? If I write the following:

	Yes, this is up to the implementation to decide.  For PowerPC,
unsigned char is more efficient and may even be defined by the ABI.  You
can invoke GCC with -fsigned-char if you require the other behavior.

David


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