Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bgibbons
From: bgibbons@Apple.COM (Bill Gibbons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Signed Char (was: 64 bit architectures and C/C++)
Keywords: signed char
Message-ID: <52587@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 16:45:42 GMT
References: <12563@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <312@nazgul.UUCP> <2826D9E7.407F@tct.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 16

According to bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright):
>The most aggravating problem we have is it seems we (Zortech) are the only
>compiler for which:
>	char
>	signed char
>	unsigned char
>are all distinct types!

The MPW C++ compiler (for the Macintosh) also treats these as distinct types.
This was a local bug fix to CFront which we never got around to sending to
AT&T.  (Sorry, Pat.)

-- 

Bill Gibbons
bgibbons@apple.com