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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Signed Characters
Message-ID: <724@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 15:07:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 15:07:51 1986
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In article <570@tjalk.UUCP> dick@vu44.UUCP (Dick Grune) writes:
>I just dropped into this, and it may have been said before, but if there
>is char and unsigned char, I expect the char to be signed.

X3J11 (ANSI C committee) added "signed char". If you assume that your char is
signed your code is highly non-portable.
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