Difference between char and unsigne
DSTONE at WL9.Prime.COM
DSTONE at WL9.Prime.COM
Thu Jul 19 19:59:00 AEST 1990
Karl Heuer writes:
> Now, since all normal% characters are contained within the intersection of
> `char' and `unsigned char', you can safely ignore this botch if you *know*
> you're dealing with the most restrictive kind of text.
> % Besides being true of all ASCII characters, this guarantee is also extended
> to the entire C source character set in non-ASCII alphabets. Basically this
> forbids an EBCDIC implementation from making `char' a signed 8-bit type.
I thought this was true, too: but where is it in the standard? I have
RTFS without success. The only place I can find it is in K&R I
Reference Manual section 6.1 ("it is guaranteed that a member of the
standard character set is non-negative").
David Stone
<dstone at wl9.prime.com>
speaking for myself, and not Prime Computer.
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