John Darrington <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:46:34AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > "char" is special. There are three distinct character types: > char, signed char, and unsigned char. > > Thanks. I didn't know that. Is this specific to gcc or is it in C99 ?
It's even in C89. > > Also, the Gtk/Glib functions use plain char for UTF8 strings, > > Actually, that's not literally true. The functions are declared to > take gchar *. Glib then typedefs gchar to char. Perhaps with some > devious hack we could make gchar into something else, but I'm not > too sure how wise it would be to do that. I think it would be a bad idea. We seem somewhat stuck then. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
