16 May
2020
16 May
'20
10:31 p.m.
On 5/15/20, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
arm has been the biggest outlier in terms of unsigned char. In FreeBSD,
this has been the second largest source of bugs with the platform... the
OABI weird alignment requirements being the first (thankfully behind us)...
Why did the implementers of the Unix ABI for ARM decide to have char
be unsigned? Was there an architectural reason for it?
-Paul W.