[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: > Yes, it is. Unfortunately, it's also wrong. If you have a pointer to > char but need to treat the data it points to as unsigned char, you have > to cast the pointer and dereference it to get the correct value on ones > complement systems -- dereferencing and then casting doesn't work > because -0 gets converted to +0.
OK, but gnulib assumes two's complement hosts. This is documented in its README. So we needn't worry about casting the pointer before dereferencing it here.
