Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!gwyn@BRL.ARPA
From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Questions about C on a Prime (primix)
Message-ID: <2020@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 18:18:25 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.2020
Posted: Sun Mar 23 18:18:25 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 05:22:09 EST
Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA
Lines: 5

Any C implementation that insists on having the high bit set
for normal character (char)s should also treat (char) as
(unsigned char), or else there will be sign-propagation
constants when (char)s are widened to (int).  Otherwise,
this is a permissible (although unusual) implementation choice.