On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 23:29, Mij wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > >On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 07:48, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > >No need to send your humours to me. K&R never said that char should be > >signed, it's not the norm. People just assume it, "Hey, it works on my > >machine, so it should work everywhere". Next you're gonna tell me that > >MMX assembly should also work on PPC because "What benefits do we get > >from being incompatible with the rest of the world?". > > > >Your time would be better spent fixing the programs that make this wrong > >assumption. > > > > > > > Agree with Albert here. > Standards are more precious than how most people think.
These two sentences are contradictory. ;) The current C standards don't define if char is signed or unsigned by default, hence any code making assumptions about that is broken. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
