On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:14:36AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 	the variables are auto variables (on stack, not in structure nor union)
> 	and are used just as flags.  i don't think the use of char will help
> 	anybody, or anybody cares.

Machines with small quantities of memory will probably care if every
char that "doesn't really need to be one" becomes an int. It's just
a bad precedent to set, that's all.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net