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From: walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Initialisation of unsigned strings
Message-ID: <12570021@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 89 15:35:33 GMT
References: <438@mjolner.tele.nokia.fi>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>First I thought that gcc was being too pedantic, but unfortunately the May
>1988 draft seems to agree: 3.1.2.5 classifies "unsigned char" as an unsigned
>integer type, and 3.5.7 says that an array of character type may be initialised
>by a character string literal. Why could it not say "array of plain, signed or
>unsigned char"?

Note that "unsigned char" IS a character type, as well as an unsigned
integer type.  In the May, 1988, draft, see page 23, line 9 (3.1.2.5).
So it is legal to initialize an array of unsigned char with a character
string literal.

Walter Murray
Not speaking for X3J11
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