From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:05:08 -0500 Subject: [9fans] 8c puzzling behavior In-Reply-To: <0d48db8f51a5c5abc669f67d8a3f39c3@terzarima.net> References: <0d48db8f51a5c5abc669f67d8a3f39c3@terzarima.net> Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9f0f044-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Mar 9 02:11:21 EST 2011, forsyth at terzarima.net wrote: > >ah, that's the c type system. > > not exactly: ansi changed it. > the original one had unsigned as an attribute that remained despite changes of word length. > ansi changed it for various reasons to `value preserving' from `unsigned preserving'. i was meckering about the current state of affairs, not casting aspersions on the original. - erik