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In article AA04691@hercules.iassf.easams.com.au, rjl@iassf.easams.com.au
writes:
>
>Surely it is ill-formed, since char is implementation defined as either
>unsigned char or signed char.
>: 	S( char ) {
>...
>: 	S( unsigned char ) {
>
>Which means that on some platforms this means something and on others
>it is a dupplicate definition.

No. Type "char" has the same repesentation as either "signed char" or
"unsigned char", but is a distinct type. You can overload on all three
types:
	int foo(char) { ... }
	int foo(signed char) { ... }
	int foo(unsigned char) { ... }

Similarly, type int often has the same representation as either type
short or type long, but it is a distinct type.

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