In article <V65t61KlN2yj.csx0zJNL@smtp.free.fr> you write:
>This is quite strange. I've been on the RiscBSD
>mailing-list (this is NetBSD/arm32) and it was
>said that NetBSD required *signed* char (I don't
>remember at which level), and this was annoying
>because the ARM processors don't have a signed
>byte-load or it is slower than the unsigned one.

This certainly isn't true any more.  NetBSD/arm26 has "char" default to
unsigned, and works fine.  Of course, NetBSD probably requires "signed char"
to be available, but it is even on the ARM.  It's just slow.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>