Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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 Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6744 Posted: Wed Nov 25 22:11:37 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 12:21:32 EST References: <1470@copper.TEK.COM> <6732@brl-smoke.ARPA> <9538@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 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.