-fsigned-char on all arches

David Daney ddaney at avtrex.com
Fri Apr 13 19:24:16 UTC 2007


Will Newton wrote:
> 
> I was after a rationale or a justification for this decision which I
> haven't managed to find as yet.

Since I didn't make the decision I cannot say definitively, but it 
sounds like it was done to silence compiler warning messages.

> If it would be accepted I would be
> happy to submit a patch that fixes the warnings and restores char
> behaviour to architecture dependant.

I am not a maintainer, but think it is an excellent idea.

Presumably you would test with both signed and unsigned char platform 
builds.

David Daney



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