henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (08/03/90)
In article <4700058@m.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >The problem was that "signed" was a valid type modifier, but "unsigned" wasn't. >If chars were (by default) unsigned, they could be made signed... Um, excuse me? "signed" didn't become a valid modifier until ANSI C, while "unsigned" existed rather before that. As of 1974, when I first encountered it, C had neither. -- The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry