On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 llile@SALTONUSA.COM wrote:

> My favorite compiler defaults to unsigned char, but others
> probably do something different.

Whether a "char" is signed or unsigned is implementation-dependent.  A
"char" is meant to store an ASCII character, not to be used as a
general-purpose integer.  For this purpose, you'd wanted to specify a
"signed char" or an "unsigned char."

> Some others might assume the number 10 means 0x10 AFAIK.

Perhaps an assembler would, but not a C compiler.

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 llile@SALTONUSA.COM wrote:
>
> >         char i;
> >         i= 9;
> >         do{
> >                 some stuff
> >         }while(--i < 9 );
> >
> > will define behavior for every possible value of i.

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