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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why unsigned chars not default?
Message-ID: <8751@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Oct 88 08:52:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: smoke.8751
References: <2723@ingr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2723@ingr.UUCP> crossgl@ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes:
>The proposed ANSI C standard states (I am quoting directly from the document):

The definition of "character" has been changed.  However, whether a plain
char acts like signed char or unsigned char is up to the implementation,
as it has been since the early days of C.