Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:48:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: knu@iDaemons.org, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moused(8): char signed-ness problem with gcc 3.1 Message-ID: <3CE2BBA2.9416C455@mindspring.com> References: <86sn4t8fzp.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <3CE2B06B.BF034A4E@mindspring.com> <200205151934.MAA20988@windsor.research.att.com>
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Bill Fenner wrote: > gcc 3.1 simply defaults to unsigned chars. 127 << 1 = 254; 254 / 2 = 127. > > My machine is too slow to test this expeditiously, but I'm trying > adding "#define DEFAULT_SIGNED_CHAR 1" into freebsd-native.h . I will bet today's lunch money that you have found it for sure. I guess we will have to go around adding "signed" everywhere, if it's no longer the default. Unsigned is a stupid, counter-intuitive default, and has been, ever since I first used AIX. My bet is a conspiracy by AIX folks so that Open Source software will work on AIX without them having to fix their stupid defaults. 8-) 8-). If this isn't the default, then "signed" is too much like "const" and "volatile" and other "you can't ignore them or I will generate bad code" keywords. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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