why GCC does implicit promotion to unsigned char?

[Miles Bader]

Konstantin Vladimirov <konstantin.vladimirov@gmail.com> writes:
> It looks really weird. Why gcc promotes char to unsigned char internally?

Hmm, maybe not useful, but if you used "unsigned char" as the variable
types or the -funsigned-char command-line option, it won't ('cause the
variables will already be unsigned)...

-miles

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