gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (08/13/89)
In article <4724@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes: -In article <25999@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amd.com (Tim Olson) writes: ->Having the sign of chars be undefined allows the implementation to be as ->efficient as possible with respect to converting between chars and ints. -Huh? Are you telling us that the standard *allows* such a horrible -thing? It has to -- that's been a C language rule since way back (see K&R 1st Edition, for example).