On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:42:05PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

 > 	how can I suppress the warning in this case?  it looks that macppc
 > 	treats char as unsigned char, while for i386 char is signed.
 > 	if the char is signed, I really need to check for negative numbers. 

The signed-ness of `char' is machine-dependent.  Of our current platforms,
PowerPC and ARM are `unsigned char is the default'.  Portable code cannot
assume that `char' is signed.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>