Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: BUG - unsigned long cast to double
Message-ID: <1988Sep7.193817.4594@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1239500001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2590@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <13315@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 88 19:38:17 GMT

In article <13315@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>I believe the One True C Compiler (dmr's '11 compiler) :-) did not have
>unsigned <char, short, long> variants.

Well, originally of course it didn't have "unsigned" at all!

Unsigned long never did exist in the DMR compiler.  Unsigned short sort of
existed -- "short" essentially turned into "int" very early, as a quick
way of hacking "short" in.  Unsigned char wasn't present for a long time,
but the System V version did have it -- I don't know whether that was
Dennis's work or somebody else's.
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