Re: [BUG?] CW6, signed chars, comparisons

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From: MWRon
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:00

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In article <rbarris-6FA5D9.13581513112000@news.intelenet.net>, Rob Barris
<rbarris@quicksilver.com> wrote:

>   The above code prints "not less" if kLimit is anything from 129 to 
>255 inclusive.  Once I change kLimit to 256 or higher it prints "less". 
>(CW6, Windows x86 compiler).

The problem was that the x86 compiler was trying to get around this
implicit promotion to int by restoring the comparison to compare chars,
but it considered 128..255 to be unsigned chars.

This will be fixed in the next release.  Metrowerks apologizes for this
inconvenience.
Ron

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From: mwron@metrowerks.com (MWRon)
Subject: Re: [BUG?] CW6, signed chars, comparisons
Date: 2000/11/14
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