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SubjectRe: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:27:43 -0500, "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

> So almost all the rules around the signs of types are because of a single,
> historical machine. Hence the rules about "char" being unsigned by default
> and "int" being signed by default are because of the nature of the PDP-11.
>[...]
> Now: There is no reason for the behavior that came from the nature of the
> PDP11 to have survived, but because it was in "The White Book" it made it
> through the ANSI standardization process.
>
> Now that this history lesson is over...

... we can remember that char is signed on PDP-11. Mvu hah hah hah ha,
only serious. Check how movb works.

-- Pete
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