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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Subject: Re: Unsigned wchar_t
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:36:57AM +1300, Andrew Turner wrote:
> Hello hackers@
> 
> I'm working on getting FreeBSD working with the ARM EABI. As part of
> this the Procedure Call Standard for the ARM Architecture (AAPCS)
> defines wchar_t as an unsigned int.

Does someone at ARM actually get paid to define ABIs that are different
from what everyone else is doing? Didn't we learn anything from the
problems of char vs signed char vs unsigned char?

Joerg