On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM, John David Anglin <d...@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote: > I have a patch to provide stdint.h on HP-UX that I have been testing. > I have resolved the consistency issues with inttypes.h although there > are some slightly wierd aspects. For example, I found "signed char" and > "char" are inconsistent, yet characters are signed. The specification > of some types differs from that in inttypes.h for some types but gcc > doesn't object. For example, I specify "long long int" instead of just > "long long".
There are three distant character types in C and C++; signed char, unsigned char and char. Even if char is signed by default char and signed char are still incompatible types. This is different from long long int and long long where they are the same type. Thanks, Andrew Pinski
