Int and Char

bright at dataio.UUCP bright at dataio.UUCP
Wed Jul 30 08:31:05 AEST 1986


In article <5529 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.UUCP writes:
>> For my next question, why doesn't my C compiler accept declarations
>> like 'signed char a;' or something like that?
>Because it's not an ANSI C compiler.  The ANSI X3J11 draft includes a
>"signed char" specification, but AT&T hasn't put one into the 3B20 C
>compiler yet (I suspect few, if any, other PCC-based compilers have, either).

Datalight C supports 'signed char' declarations. Datalight C is also the
only one I know of that supports 'const' and 'volatile' storage class
modifiers.



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