Re: CHARACTER in C

I fixed the problem with string inspects (in the repository - the fix should 
also be present in the latest snapshot). If there are more problems with the 
signedness of chars, please open a SmartZilla bug to track them. Thanks
-- 
Frederic Merizen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guillaume Lemaître" <[email protected]>
To: "SmartEiffel Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:54 PM
Subject: CHARACTER in C


>   Hi
>
> Why CHARACTER is mapped to an 'unsigned char' and not a 'char' ? This 
> leads to a problem when I write, for example
>
> inspect my_string
> when "août" then
>   -- ...
> end
>
> I have gcc warnings at compile-time and I never enter in the problematic 
> case.
>
> In C, there are three types of char :
>   - 'char' is for character entries (part of strings)
>   - 'signed char' is for smallest signed integer available
>   - 'unsigned char' is for smallest unsigned integer available
>
> So I'll found logical that
>   - CHARACTER become a 'char'
>   - INTEGER_8 become a 'signed char'
>
> Guillaume
>
>
>