Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:29:17 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unsigned char portability Message-ID: <20020131162917.GA1789@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020131162116.GB1512@raggedclown.net> References: <F74DyNdauuNi4kysRWz00010abe@hotmail.com> <20020131162116.GB1512@raggedclown.net>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:21:16PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:47:47PM +0000, June Carey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a question I was hoping someone could answer. > > Does the "unsigned char" C type have any machine architecture portability > > problems ? > > If you explicitly "unsign" it no I believe not..as long as you don't > play silly buggers with it inside a struct. > > The signedness of a plain char is architecture/compiler dependent. > Which is a pain in the a*se. > Maybe I was answering the wrong question, are you talking about transfering things down the wire, or about how a program behaves when run on different architecures. My answer was to the latter question. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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