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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why unsigned chars not default?
Message-ID: <8722@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Oct 88 19:26:21 GMT
References: <9563@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <9563@pur-ee.UUCP> mendozag@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Victor M Grado) writes:
-   He claims the compilers are at fault and that all the compilers
- should have 'unsigned char' as default for characters so you
- can do all sorts of arithmetic with them.
- Any comments and/or suggestions I can pass along?

Perhaps you could tell him to learn C instead of guessing about it.