On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 08:27 -0500, Donald Kayser wrote: > This same code segment works under previous versions on this powerpc > (2.4 kernel, old xf86 on sarge debian distribution. This is the second > time on my current project that this has bitten me. I am wondering > when it changed from behaving as if char is signed, which BTW has been > the 'norm' for my programming life, to unsigned char. It seems that > this is a gcc change of behavior as I would never have had to specify > 'signed char' previously.
The Linux/PPC ABI has been like this at least since I started using it around 1998/9, probably for as long as it exists. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
