"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:

> I've just confirmed that AIX and IRIX declare it unsigned, whereas
> Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, NetBSD, OpenBSD all declare it
> signed.

The point is, the standard declares it implementation defined. Thus if
you ever need it to be either signed or unsigned, using an andorned char
is a programming error.

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