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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix char signedness
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
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In message: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610280057240.26682@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
            Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
: Hi,
: 
: On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
: 
: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
: > 
: > > It has been a really long time I have been working on a broken system that 
: > > did not default to "signed".
: > 
: > The only thing that is broken is your knowlege of C.
: 
: Okay.
: 
: And what system did you encounter this behaviour on?

It is the default for arm with gcc, for one.

The behavior is standards conforming, per section 6.2.5, para 15 of
ANSI-C (1989) standard.  Your characterization of it as 'broken' is
wrong.

Warner