Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!turk From: turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: "Signed" Implemented Yet? Message-ID: <3520@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 13 Aug 89 10:28:31 GMT References: <6590193@hplsla.HP.COM> <6590195@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: Advanced Technology Graphics, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, USA Lines: 17 In article <6590195@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes: >>Interestingly, all current C compilers on MS-DOS that I'm familiar with >>support 'signed'. > >Interestingly, my recent-generation C++ compiler doesn't -- unless that's >been fixed. Seems like a shame to have a C++ front end that doesn't understand >"signed" when *all* the C backends do understand it. I was hoping that some >C++ vendors might speak up about what C++ compilers support it and which don't. >[and why not] Yes, and this poses severe problems on the IRIS, which has chars as unsigned by default. There seems to be no way to get signed chars. -- Ken Turkowski @ Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA Internet: turk@apple.com Applelink: TURKOWSKI1 UUCP: sun!apple!turk