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Re: Signedness of char and puts()

From: me22 <me22 dot ca at gmail dot com>
To: "Eljay Love-Jensen" <eljay at adobe dot com>
Cc: "Ed Stafford" <ed dot stafford at xilinx dot com>, GCC-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:04:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Signedness of char and puts()
References: <20080328200428.4266C1AD005D@mail14-sin.bigfish.com> <C412BB9F.3211%eljay@adobe.com>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>  > Does anyone know why this occurs?
>
>  "Hello" is a char*, not an unsigned char* or signed char*.
>
>  (In C++ "Hello" is a char const*.)
>

( Actually, to be pedantic, it's a char const [6] in C++.  Normally
this doesn't matter, but someone just yesterday found a bug in
libstdc++ caused by it, so you never know. )

References:
- Signedness of char and puts()
  - From: Ed Stafford
- Re: Signedness of char and puts()
  - From: Eljay Love-Jensen

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