Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org>
Branch:
Changeset: r2967:6c855193e59c
Date: 2017-06-02 10:16 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/6c855193e59c/
Log: Document the signedness of charN_t
diff --git a/doc/source/ref.rst b/doc/source/ref.rst
--- a/doc/source/ref.rst
+++ b/doc/source/ref.rst
@@ -629,8 +629,8 @@
| | or another <cdata char>| length 1 | ``<`` |
+---------------+------------------------+------------------+----------------+
| ``wchar_t``, | a unicode of length 1 | a unicode of | |
-| ``char16_t``, | (or maybe 2 if | length 1 | int(), bool(), |
-| ``char32_t`` | surrogates) or | (or maybe 2 if | ``<`` |
+| ``char16_t``, | (or maybe 2 if | length 1 | int() `[8]`, |
+| ``char32_t`` | surrogates) or | (or maybe 2 if | bool(), ``<`` |
| | another similar <cdata>| surrogates) | |
+---------------+------------------------+------------------+----------------+
| ``float``, | a float or anything on | a Python float | float(), int(),|
@@ -774,6 +774,13 @@
take directly as argument types or return type a complex type cannot
be called by CFFI, unless they are directly using the API mode.
+`[8]` sign of ``wchar_t``, ``char16_t`` and ``char32_t``
+
+ The ``wchar_t`` type has the same signedness as the underlying
+ platform's. For example, on Linux, it is a signed 32-bit integer.
+ However, the types ``char16_t`` and ``char32_t`` (*new in version
+ 1.11*) are always unsigned.
+
.. _file:
Support for FILE
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