On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:12:06PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > That doesn't really make it a standard though (de facto perhaps). :) > The odds of all those man pages deviating from the standard is probably > very low. But unless someone has actually read the damn thing we won't > know for sure.
You could check the C99 spec of course, which says gives (eg) strcmp as: int strcmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); rmk's rules of char: 1. use char for character strings and individual characters 2. use signed char if your data type relies upon negative char values 3. use unsigned char if your data type does not require negative char values, especially if it makes use of the positive values not present in the signed char range. IOW, use signed/unsigned when you need to explicitly state your requirements, but omit it for true strings and characters. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel