On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Below is a small patch for Exim 3.163. Without it, you can't transfer
> x'ff' bytes over TLS on systems where "char" is by default signed (e.g.
> Sparcs). I have vowed never again to write a program that uses plain
> "char" types. I have been bitten by Sun too many times now.
At one time I used a Mac compiler which had 3 options:
char = unsigned char
char = signed char
char != unsigned char , char != signed char
> Personally, I've never understood the need for signed chars anyway.
My guess is that they are "signed small integers"
(where small is often but not always 8bit).
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
