Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 Why?  The type char is defined by the C standard to be an 8bit signed integer.
 The type unsigned char is defined to be an 8bit unsigned integer.  Why would
 we want to add a bunch of unnecessary casting?

Not quite: http://home.att.net/~jackklein/c/inttypes.html

That doesn't resolve Roy's question of "why overload signed char and
unsigned char"?

Can anyone point to a platform where int8_t/uint8_t != signed/unsigned char?
If so, I agree with the patch.

If not... Roy's question remains.

Bill

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