Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> writes: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > >> No, CHAR is really supposed to be the same thing as char, since it's >> used for strings. Otherwise you'll need casts all over the place. > > Ideally we'd check whether 'char' was signed or unsigned in Visual C++ > for PowerPC (there was a Windows NT 3.51 for PowerPC). I doubt that > Microsoft would have made it unsigned and then we'd need to do the same > to really be source compatibile.
Sure, but we would do that by adding -fsigned-char in winegcc, not by making CHAR and char two different types. > But since we're very unlikely to ever > be able to check that and since Windows on PowerPC is pretty irrelevant > anyway we can forget about it. Yep. -- Alexandre Julliard julli...@winehq.org
