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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Signed/Unisgned chars (Was: What's a C expert?)
Message-ID: <10456@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Jun 89 08:18:29 GMT
References: <12214@well.UUCP> <6057@microsoft.UUCP> <1989Jun19.185803.4083@marob.masa.com> <2379@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2379@uwovax.uwo.ca> 2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>Howvwer in real C (ANSI C) chars are guaranteed signed.

Not unless you declare them as "signed char".  Plain "char" may act
the same as "signed char" or "unsigned char", choice left up to the
C implementation.