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From: carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: signed chars
Message-ID: <10700010@snail>
Date: 8 Dec 87 16:14:00 GMT
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Nf-From: snail.CS.UIUC.EDU!carroll    Dec  8 10:14:00 1987


	I'm having some problems with code that need signed characters (it's
originally from a vax). Unfortunately, the machine I am on has unsigned
characters. I have not been able to find any way in C to tell the compiler to
use the characters as signed. I know that the hardware can support them, but
is there any generic way to force things to be signed? K&R has the "unsigned"
reserved word, but "signed" is not. Any help would be appreciated.

	We are running SysVR3 on AT&T 3b2's, standard C.


Alan M. Carroll		amc@woodshop.cs.uiuc.edu	carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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