Mini-patch for cccp.c

Chip Salzenberg chip@rio.atlantic.net
Wed Oct 1 12:17:00 GMT 1997


According to Peter Seebach:
> Chip Salzenberg          - a.k.a. -           <chip@pobox.com> writes:
> >According to Thomas Koenig:
> >> To use a char in such circumstances appears to me very, very unclean.
> 
> >Your intuition needs training, then.  In C, char is just tinyint.
> >Pretending otherwise is foolish.
> 
> char is actually a very awkward integer type; you can't even be sure whether
> it's signed or unsigned, and it has a lot of additional aliasing baggage
> and properties.

OK, it's just an awkward inadequately specified tinyint.  But I see no
problem with storing values 0-127 in one.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg          - a.k.a. -           <chip@pobox.com>
        "He's Mr. Big of 'Big And Tall' fame."  // MST3K



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