On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > > - char fixkey, fixvel; /* fixed key, velocity */
> > > + signed char fixkey, fixvel; /* fixed key, velocity */
> >
> > Philip, just curious, which CPU has its 'char' type
> > defaulted to unsigned ?
>
> PPC.
Hmmm... If this comes from IBM, could it be to allow `char declared' data
to compare correctly by default against implicitely `unsigned char
defined' EBCDIC character constants.
Gérard.
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