#What goes where?
16-Feb-88 01:51:25
Sb: #109390-#What goes where?
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Nick Sullivan/Transactor 76703,4353
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Nick,
Looking in the Lattice 4.0 manual…it gives some of the changes
between K&R and ANSI and it doesn't say anything about typing of 'char'
values, and Lattice supports both signed and unsigned char's.
I would suspect that ANSI would leave it alone simply because under
certain processors (such as the Amiga) a 'natural' value for an int is 32bits
so a short would be 16bits…that leaves char for 8 bit values and there are
occasions where you'd want them signed or unsigned.
I've got another reference manual at work that supposedly conforms to
the present ANSI reccomendations. I'll look in it tommorow to see what it
says.
Don