Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Signed/Unisgned chars (Was: What's a C expert?)
Message-ID: <1989Jun27.154404.27314@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12214@well.UUCP> <6057@microsoft.UUCP> <1989Jun19.185803.4083@marob.masa.com> <2379@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 15:44:04 GMT

In article <2379@uwovax.uwo.ca> 2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>Howvwer in real C (ANSI C) chars are guaranteed signed.

Please cite chapter and verse when you make such a remarkable statement.
ANSI C has three types of character:  "signed char", guaranteed signed;
"unsigned char", guaranteed unsigned; and "char", WHICH IS EITHER SIGNED
OR UNSIGNED AS THE IMPLEMENTATION PLEASES, just like it has always been.
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