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

[Chris Torek]

In article <2379 at uwovax.uwo.ca> 2014_5001 at uwovax.uwo.ca (Alex Pruss,
according to his signature quote) writes:
>Howvwer in real C (ANSI C) chars are guaranteed signed.

Bzzzt!

First, in the pANS, `char' is neither guaranteed signed nor guaranteed
unsigned.  To get one or the other, you must specify which you want;
otherwise you get whatever the compiler prefers.  Second, `ANSI C'
cannot possibly be `real C', since there is no ANSI C standard (yet).
Either that, or the language people have been using for years is somehow
not `real'.

(Personally, I prefer the terms `Classic C' and `New C', a la the change
to Coca-Cola.)
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