Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sun C - is it missing a type specifier?
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.165118.22842@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb11.050706.18745@johnny5.uucp>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1991 16:51:18 GMT

In article <1991Feb11.050706.18745@johnny5.uucp> garvey@johnny5.uucp (Joe Garvey) writes:
>I'm still kinda surprised that the Sun C compiler (unbundled one) doesn't
>allow "signed char". Is there a reason for this? Is it an oversite? Did
>I screw up?

You are being optimistic if you expect K&R2 to apply to every C compiler
in the world.  Many old compilers -- including Sun's unbundled one -- are
nowhere near conformance to ANSI C.
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