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From: bright@dataio.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Int and Char
Message-ID: <1054@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 18:31:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: dataio.1054
Posted: Tue Jul 29 18:31:05 1986
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References: <3250@jhunix.UUCP> <5529@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright
Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <5529@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP writes:
>> 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).

Datalight C supports 'signed char' declarations. Datalight C is also the
only one I know of that supports 'const' and 'volatile' storage class
modifiers.