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Article #9768Re: Signed Chars - What Foolishness Revisited!
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1986 19:11
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1986 19:11
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> - The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost (K&R, H&S, and X3J11 resp.) all
> agree that a character of the machine's normal character set MUST
> appear positive...
It turns out that I have to amend this slightly. The Father and the Son
are indeed in agreement on this. The Holy Ghost has chickened out and
watered down this restriction, however: it only says that the characters
in the "source character set" (roughly, those one uses to write C) must
look positive. Thus an 8088 C which makes normal ASCII look positive but
lets the "upper-bit" characters look negative is technically legitimate.
Grr. ("Grr" not just because I goofed, but because I don't like the change.)
--
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Signed Chars - What Foolishness Revisited! Message-ID: <7308@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 14:11:41 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7308 Posted: Mon Nov 10 14:11:41 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Nov-86 14:11:41 EST References: <8776@duke.duke.UUCP>, <26@asi.UUCP>, <7298@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14