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Re: fdtable

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: fdtable
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 12:19:23 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199605070817.KAA08463@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Peter Stephenson" at May 7, 96 10:17:21 am

>In 2.6-beta17, fdtable[] is a char array, and there are tests like
>
>		    if (fdtable[i] < 0)
>			fdtable[i]--;
>
>for which gcc on IRIX is complaining about limited range of data type.
>Shouldn't fdtable[] be `signed char'? (Yes.)

Careful!  The `signed' keyword does not exist in K&R C.  We should
either avoid its usage altogether, or do a feature test for it.  I
think all K&R compilers have char signed by default, so this should
work.

-zefram

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