svn commit: trunk/uClibc: include

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 8 03:16:17 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:33, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> This has (almost) been tried before. Then it was -fsigned-char,
> but I think this thread from 2007 still bears meaning (especially
> Mike's mail):
> 
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/uclibc/2007-April/038622.html

this one:

> > that enabled -fsigned-char for all arches. What was the reasoning
> > behind this decision? I'm reliably informed that it generates
> > suboptimal code on our architecture.
> 
> what dumbass committed that change !

But -funsigned-char is much more safe than signed one.
Point me to a bug (in any program not just uclibc)
which happens with unsigned chars but works with signed ones.
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