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From: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@gmx.at>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL]: Re: Why int32_t is long int on 32 Bit Intel?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:19:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1Mq2nA-1q4Riv0aPK-00n9QW@mail.gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADqjcyh-15rCzHYcpj91Yb_o84v=ySLKeLscRSZpqTdma7Hb_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:47:22 -0400
Trampas Stern <trampas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Most code and libraries, like FAT libraries, all assume a char is 8bit.

Well, it's mandated by POSIX to be 8 bits and in general a quite
reasonable assumption (if targeting POSIX systems) but not necessarily
true elsewhere... and if you depend on the signedness of char you are
doing it wrong too. If you want 8 unsigned bits you should use uint8_t
instead of char. In that regard it's quite similar to the int
"problem". In either case there is a proper solution in C that is
working on all conforming systems.

> right shift sign extended.

Right shifts of negative integers is UB in C (and not necessarily
sign-extended) if that's what you mean. We are also quite off-topic
already IMHO...

-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-29 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-27 11:55 panda.trooper
2023-07-27 23:13 ` Brian Inglis
2023-07-28  8:06   ` panda.trooper
2023-07-28 13:23     ` Anders Montonen
2023-07-28 14:15       ` Joel Sherrill
2023-07-28 15:49         ` [EXTERNAL]: " Mike Burgess
2023-07-28 16:11           ` Stefan Tauner
2023-07-28 16:26             ` Mike Burgess
2023-07-28 17:06               ` Richard Damon
2023-07-28 18:05                 ` Grant Edwards
2023-07-28 18:27           ` panda.trooper
2023-07-28 20:23             ` Jon Beniston
2023-07-28 21:42               ` panda.trooper
2023-07-28 21:53                 ` Jon Beniston
2023-07-29 12:47                   ` Trampas Stern
2023-07-29 13:19                     ` Stefan Tauner [this message]
2023-07-29 21:21                     ` Grant Edwards

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