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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C awkward examples
Message-ID: <6744@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 22:11:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 22:11:37 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9538@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>The new signed/unsigned rules (differing from PCC's), together with
>the fact that the value of sizeof is `an unsigned integral type',
>will (I predict) be the source of some of the most amazingly subtle bugs....

Yeah, well, the problem was that there were many more non-PCC-based
implementations of C, especially in the MS-DOS world.  They could
say something similar if sign-preserving rules had been adopted.