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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why unsigned chars not default?
Message-ID: <8753@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Oct 88 09:17:32 GMT
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References: <9563@pur-ee.UUCP> <207600005@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <207600005@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Although there is a simple fix (change 'char' to 'short int'), AT&T,
>through several releases, *still* hasn't gotten it to work.
>Who knows what other bugs are floating around because of something
>like this?

Apparently nobody is paid to go around cleaning up old (yet still
important) code.  My favorite was the "#if u3b5|u3b2"s scattered
around in the PWB/Graphics sources where fixing the original bug
("char c=getchar()" etc.) right would have been much simpler.

One would hope that by now all the bugs that Guy Harris, I, and
others tracked down have been fixed in the AT&T master sources,
but somehow I doubt it.