From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: remove ancient STOUC() workaround
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:07:17 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313845986.7216898.1671037637925@mail.virginmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36532-1671036747.322209@Psau.rCcr.8m-L>
> On 14/12/2022 16:52 Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org> wrote:
> The STOUC() macro is a wrapper for (unsigned char) casts that works
> around a compiler bug by doing ((unsigned char)(unsigned short)(X)) if
> autoconf detects the bug. This has been there since before the earliest
> (1995) list archives. I've never come across the need for this in any
> other C codebase. Surely whatever compiler needed this has long since
> ceased to be able to compile zsh for a myriad other reasons and been
> confined to a museum. A web search for the autoconf output of "signed to
> unsigned casting is broken..." finds matches with the word "no" but none
> with "yes". Or is there some further need for this that I'm missing?
I would imagine you're right and it's well past its shelf life. The only
way to know with this ancient stuff is to suck it and see.
pws
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2022-12-14 16:52 Oliver Kiddle
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