Would you like signs with those chars?
Would you like signs with those chars?
Posted Oct 25, 2022 16:34 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by pbonzini
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?
cbw only works with accumulator, though. If you want speed and use register variables (means you use di and si) then you cannot use it.
Whether that was actual reason for the use of unsigned char or not we would never know, of course.
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