On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > OK, so I'd prefer changing the c type to unsigned char then. It could be > just char but it's better to be unsigned char indeed to emphasize that > 8-bit characters are valid too.
There's just one advantage using "signed char" or "int" instead of an unsigned type: "cbw" is shorter than "xor ah, ah" and Watcom passed the parameter in ax (not al, even if declared as signed char or unsigned char). So passing a sign extended negative char to put_console isn't that bad -- as long as the correct thing is passed to int10 of course. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
