We're experiencing some unexpected behavior with binary generated with the said version of gcc; namely that variables declared to char appear to be defaulting to unsigned char.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main( int argc, char** args, char** envs ) { char sc; unsigned char uc; sc = uc = -3; printf( "signed char: %d unsigned char: %d\n", sc, uc ); if ( sc > (char)0 ) printf( "sc is greater than zero\n" ); else printf( "sc is less or equal to zero\n" ); return 0; } The preceeding code would produce the following unexpected result -- signed char: 253 unsigned char: 253 sc is greater than zero Making the following change -- signed char sc; unsigned char uc; . . Would produce the expected result -- signed char: -3 unsigned char: 253 sc is less or equal to zero Can someone shed some light on this? (As in, is this "normal" and we do not know only because we've been living under a rock ;-) ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/