On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, David C. Chiu wrote:

We're experiencing some unexpected behavior with binary generated with
the said version of gcc; namely that variables declared to char appear
to be defaulting to unsigned char.

[ snip ]

Can someone shed some light on this? (As in, is this "normal" and we do
not know only because we've been living under a rock ;-)

It is allowable by the specification. C89 allowed char to be either
signed or unsigned, it was up to the implementation to decide which.

-Bret

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