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From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Signedness of char and puts()
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fsk5df$7oc$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C412BB9F.3211%eljay@adobe.com>

Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
>> Does anyone know why this occurs? 
> 
> Those are three different types.
> + char
> + unsigned char
> + signed char
> 
> "Hello" is a char*, not an unsigned char* or signed char*.
> 
> (In C++ "Hello" is a char const*.)

Isn't "Hello" technically const in C also, since -fwrite-strings was 
(thankfully, rightly) killed?

-- 
Matthew
Do you know where your towel is?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 20:04 Ed Stafford
2008-03-28 23:25 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2008-03-29  1:04   ` me22
2008-03-29  1:19   ` Matthew Woehlke [this message]
2008-03-29 12:43     ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2008-03-31  9:15   ` Michael Eager
2008-03-31 11:44     ` John Love-Jensen
2008-03-31 14:56       ` Michael Eager
2008-03-31 15:06         ` Ed Stafford
2008-03-31 17:28           ` Michael Eager
2008-04-17  9:38   ` lynx.abraxas
2008-04-17 13:49     ` Eljay Love-Jensen

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