linuxppc

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 12, 2000, Magnus Ågren <isc07046@comp.nus.edu.sg> wrote:

> So I have to use the -fsigned-char flag when compiling. This is not the
> case when compiling on linux intel, shouldn't it be the same???

Nope.  Whether `char' is signed or unsigned by default belongs in the
ABI specification of each platform/OS.  Each ABI is likely to
privilege faster operations on the affected hardware platform, so
that, when you don't care about signedness (which you shouldn't when
using plain char), you don't pay for it.

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