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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof (integral types)
Message-ID: <1482@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Apr 89 01:51:12 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Possibly true of C++ and of pre-ANSI C; however, once the standard is
>approved and compilers start claiming conformance, anybody who claims
>that their compiler conforms but whose compiler doesn't have:
>
>	a "char" type that holds values between -127 and 127;
	...

>is lying.

Make that

	a "signed char" type that holds values between -127 and 127;

Thanks to Tony Hansen for pointing this out.