Hi,

> 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.

Hmm, you must have misunderstood something here.  RiscBSD has had
char's unsigned by default right from the start.  And yes, there
were quite a few bugs in the sources that needed to be fixed for this.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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