Re: [Groff] Re: signedness problems

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:12:29AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > grotty in 1.19 doesn't compile on platforms where char is by
> > default unsigned; the attached patch fixes this.  Please
> > commit it to the groff CVS repository.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.
> 
> Since `char' is always signed in groff, isn't there another
> possibility to fix this?  I've thought of a configure test which sets
> the appropriate compiler flag.  autoconf provides the macro
> AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, defining __CHAR_UNSIGNED__; would the following do
> the right thing in src/include/lib.h (and some other places for code
> written in C instead of C++)?

Or just use -fsigned-char, maybe?

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden