In article <3F14007C.92A259E7@marconi.com>,
John Howells <John.Howells@marconi.com> wrote:
>"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:
>> Sorry, AIX considers it unsigned.
>
>You have to be careful in saying that, as in principle it is the
>compiler that matters, not the platform. It might be unwise to break the
>platform convention, but in theory one compiler might use signed and one
>unsigned on the same platform.

I would expect this to be treated as part of the platform's ABI, which all
compilers for the platform should conform to. This is because the OS
vendor provides header files for their system call and runtime libraries,
and all hell would break loose if these headers were interpreted
differently by different compilers.

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