On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > >> 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. > > Oh. Good point. I forgot about that one. I guess that's a hint for > Austin <g>... > > > -- > Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ > War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left. > > >
I thought about doing that, but it seemed a bit heavy handed to me. If Alexandre's fine with that, I'll send a patch. I asked Stephen to ask ReactOS if anyone had a copy of Visual C++ for Power PC, so maybe we can find out what M$ does there for char. -- -Austin
