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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology!
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 11:07:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzxd0BBfv3kc85WCDi3zOYBRWeSiGSZHsynabB-1okXRQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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On 6 November 2017 at 19:36, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> It’s worse than that.   “char” is defined as neither signed nor unsigned.
> The signedness is implementation defined.    This was why we have the inane
> “signed” keyword.

What was that story about porting an early UNIX to a machine with
different char polarity?  I dimly recall only a few problems.

N.


             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08 16:07 Nemo [this message]
2017-11-08 16:12 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-08 19:59   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 23:33   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-11-09  1:35   ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-08 20:28 ` [TUHS] NUXI Problem Warren Toomey
2017-11-08 20:38   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:39   ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 23:14   ` Warren Toomey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-07 15:34 [TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology! Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-11-08 12:48 ` Tony Finch
2017-11-08 13:36   ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 16:03   ` Warner Losh
2017-11-06 15:02 [TUHS] origins of void* Warner Losh
2017-11-06 21:46 ` [TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology! Steve Johnson
2017-11-06 22:18   ` Warner Losh
2017-11-07  0:25   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-07  0:34     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-07  0:36       ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-07  1:09     ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-07  1:55       ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 17:44       ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:56         ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:39           ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:42             ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:47               ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:48                 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:43             ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 20:43             ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:45             ` Warner Losh
2017-11-09  6:33               ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-08 20:50           ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 21:25         ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-09  6:37           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-09  7:14             ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09  7:44               ` Lars Brinkhoff

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