Re: lynx-dev Relatively mild dev13 build problems

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> In a recent note, T.E.Dickey said: 
>  
> > Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:08:13 -0400 (EDT) 
> >  
> > > There's a bunch of isdigit() atc. and tolower() that should have  
> > > their argument cast to (unsigned char)... (or use one of the lynx  
> > >    Klaus  
> >  
> > unsigned char -- or int?  (I thought the latter was needed to appease the 
> > compiler).  It's a nuisance (I'd rather not cast the parameter to isdigit 
> > if it's a char). 
> >    
> Any normal compiler should automatically convert among integral types. 

should (but unfortunately someone snuck that behavior into an otherwise
useful compiler warning in gcc a while ago - so I just grit my teeth and
ride over the bumps)

> Whether the converted value is what the function expects at runtime 
> is a different matter. 
>  
> Also a different matter is converson between (unsigned char *) and 
> (char *). OS/390's compiler regards these as incompatible (even though 
> the range of char values is [0 .. 255].  Arguments to the standard 
> str*() functions must be (char *), not (unsigned char *), per ANSI. 

The choice of whether char is signed or unsigned is implementation-dependent
afaik, and most C compilers don't recognize an explicit 'signed' qualifier.
So one compiler may warn, and others simply ignore the distinction.

>  
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