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Postings from February 2003
> > Make that declare as 'char' or 'unsigned char' and (cast) as > > appropriate. Spelling 'signed char' out in full looks messy. > > But having char as whatever-the-implementation-feels-like may be faster, > because on platforms where it is much easier to deal with 8 bit unsigned > quantities than 8 bit signed quantities, the compiler is able to make > your char (plain char) variables unsigned. Yes, having that kind of leeway for the compiler (to optimise speed/size/whatever) is nice-- but I don't remember the standard legalese what exactly the compiler can do when. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThread Previous