#Do we char?
07-Apr-88 23:04:47
Sb: #117640-#Do we char?
Fm: Nick Sullivan/Transactor 76703,4353
To: John Foust 72237,135
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Thanks for the research, John. Like you, I would have preferred the
signedness of char to be defined in the language specification… let the
application programmer worry about fine tuning the efficiency of the code
with type specifications if desired, but make the default portable. Ah,
well. 64 bits? That's a heck of a char! Actually, I always thought that
char was unlike int and long in being defined as having a specific size – 8
bits, not merely "at least 8 bits". Guess not.