From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: fdtable
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 12:19:23 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28910.199605071119@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199605070817.KAA08463@hydra.ifh.de> from "Peter Stephenson" at May 7, 96 10:17:21 am
>In 2.6-beta17, fdtable[] is a char array, and there are tests like
>
> if (fdtable[i] < 0)
> fdtable[i]--;
>
>for which gcc on IRIX is complaining about limited range of data type.
>Shouldn't fdtable[] be `signed char'? (Yes.)
Careful! The `signed' keyword does not exist in K&R C. We should
either avoid its usage altogether, or do a feature test for it. I
think all K&R compilers have char signed by default, so this should
work.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-05-07 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-07 8:17 fdtable Peter Stephenson
1996-05-07 11:19 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-05-07 14:12 ` fdtable Peter Stephenson
1996-05-07 14:52 ` fdtable Peter Stephenson
1996-05-07 15:45 ` fdtable Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-05-08 7:54 ` Macros (Was: fdtable) Bas V. de Bakker
1996-05-08 15:05 ` Zefram
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