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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Signed/Unisgned chars (Was: What's a C expert?)
Message-ID: <752@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 21:27:39 GMT
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Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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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.

?  I can't say anything about "real" C, but in ANSI C, chars are
most definitely NOT guaranteed to be signed.  "signed char"s are
signed, "unsigned char"s are unsigned, and "char"s may be
either.
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