Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:54:26 -0800
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:27:43 -0500, "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

> So almost all the rules around the signs of types are because of a single, 
> historical machine. Hence the rules about "char" being unsigned by default 
> and "int" being signed by default are because of the nature of the PDP-11. 
>[...]
> Now: There is no reason for the behavior that came from the nature of the 
> PDP11 to have survived, but because it was in "The White Book" it made it 
> through the ANSI standardization process.
> 
> Now that this history lesson is over...

... we can remember that char is signed on PDP-11. Mvu hah hah hah ha,
only serious. Check how movb works.

-- Pete
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