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Article #9639Re: Signed char - What Foolishness Is This!
From: james
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1986 06:47
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1986 06:47
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In article <8719@duke.duke.UUCP>, jwg@duke.UUCP (Jeffrey William Gillette) writes: > MSC 4.0 defaults 'char' to 'signed char'. ... > 2) What possible justification is there for this default? ... I hate to bring up the manual, but there is a /J option now that makes the char default to an unsigned value. There is also a keyword "signed" to override that default when /J is used. Which also brings up keeping your software up to date if you haven't upgraded to version 4.0 yet... -- James R. Van Artsdalen ...!ut-ngp!utastro!osi3b2!james "Live Free or Die"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!melpad!reality1!james From: james@reality1.UUCP (james) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Signed char - What Foolishness Is This! Message-ID: <46@reality1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 02:47:33 EDT Article-I.D.: reality1.46 Posted: Wed Oct 22 02:47:33 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Oct-86 00:02:36 EDT References: <8719@duke.duke.UUCP> Organization: Reality Computer Systems, Austin TX Lines: 13 Summary: Uses the /J compiler option