rkrebs@archie.dsd.es.com (Randall Krebs) (02/15/91)
There is at least one place (I didn't look for others) where the source code for perl expects the type "char" to be a signed quantity. (Actually, it just expects the result of an addition of a char and an int to be signed. Check out doarg.c line 189 patchlevel 3.044) Some compilers (RISC C Compiler v2.11) treat it as unsigned. I was seeing some pretty bizarre regular expression replacement behavior. I got around it by giving "-signed" to the MIPS cc command. randall. -- Randall S. Krebs | "There were a few PERL scripts (rkrebs@dsd.es.com) | EMAILed and well they serve the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation | purpose in its completely." Salt Lake City, Utah (Where?) | - Rohit Mehrotra