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Subject: Re: Int and Char
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Date: Sat, 26-Jul-86 18:15:14 EDT
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> For my next question, why doesn't my C compiler accept declarations
> like 'signed char a;' or something like that?

Because it's not an ANSI C compiler.  The ANSI X3J11 draft includes a
"signed char" specification, but AT&T hasn't put one into the 3B20 C
compiler yet (I suspect few, if any, other PCC-based compilers have, either).
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	Guy Harris
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