Would you like signs with those chars?
Would you like signs with those chars?
Posted Oct 24, 2022 21:29 UTC (Mon) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by mss
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?
>will print fffffffe if char is signed but just (intuitively expected) fe if it is unsigned.
Well, char in case of signed is consistent with short (always signed).
short c = 0xffff;
printf ("%x\n", c - 1);
prints fffffffe.
Therefore, char = unsigned char actually is inconsistent.
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