8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
1:48 p.m.
Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote:
% cat *.log | grep '^ char type is' | sort | uniq -c
157 char type is signed
3 char type is unsigned
The sole outliers are
* Arch Linux ARM on armv7l
* IBM CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 on PowerPC-8
* SGI IRIX 6.5 on MIPS R10000-SC
Nice survey, thanks!
I learned C using the Norcroft C compiler on early Acorn / ARM machines
where char was unsigned. That is still the case, though ARM have switched
from Norcroft to clang.
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0774h/kpr149…
(And I started learning about unix from reading articles about RISC iX,
Acorn's 4.3BSD port to the Archimedes.)
Tony.
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