Signed/Unisgned chars (Was: What's a C expert?)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2379 at uwovax.uwo.ca> 2014_5001 at uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>Howvwer in real C (ANSI C) chars are guaranteed signed.

Please cite chapter and verse when you make such a remarkable statement.
ANSI C has three types of character:  "signed char", guaranteed signed;
"unsigned char", guaranteed unsigned; and "char", WHICH IS EITHER SIGNED
OR UNSIGNED AS THE IMPLEMENTATION PLEASES, just like it has always been.
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