On Sun, 18 May 1997 16:01:23 -0400 (EDT) 
 David Jones <dej@inode.org> wrote:

 > J.T. Conklin wrote:
 > | Aside from signed/unsigned chars, I hope that all netbsd ports'
 > | operate pretty much the same.  I'd say that is one of the advantages
 > | of a single source OS, and something we shouldn't violate lightly.
 > 
 > Is there a good reason for some ports to have signed chars and others
 > unsigned?

It's dependent on the architecture, really.  The PowerPC (and ARM, I
believe) are "char unsigned" by definition of the architecture.

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