Re: E 0.9.3 release?

Bill Frantz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
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On 1/1/11 at 10:12 PM, [email protected] (Mark Miller) wrote:

>* New warning: "warning: array subscript has type `char'"
>for C code in byacc/j that seems innocent to me. And in any case is old
>third party code.

Since C supports signed chars (an abomination on the world), a C 
compiler which actually defaults to signed could cause array 
underflow problems. YMMV. VWP. Caveat emptor.

I would change their declarations to include "unsigned".

Cheers - Bill

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