Re: CodeWarrior

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From: Douglas Thorburn
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 00:00

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hamish@moffatt.nu (Hamish Moffatt) writes:

>In rmit.comp.sys.mac Luke Walshe <lw@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>>>That's the effect I want -- "unsigned char" should be a byte;
>>>char might not be.

>> I don't know any implementation where char is > 8 bits.

>I think it's defined to always by 8 bits; I assume that it could
>be signed though, which is why you can explicitly state it. The CW option
>"chars are always unsigned" is a confusing one, then.

I thought the ANSI C standard defined sizeof char == 1 'byte'
and the number of bits in 1 'byte' to be equal the number of bits
need for a char.


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Date: 1998/08/05
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