rpm, ppc and -fsigned-char

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Mniej wiecej Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:07:23AM +0200, zainteresowany Pawel Sikora rzekl:
> AFAIK, we inherit the unsigned default from AIX.
> IBM made char unsigned to match what they'd done
> on S/370 and AS/400 hardware. On those platforms,
> IBM was using EBCDIC instead of ASCII, and needed
> to make char unsigned to prevent regular characters
> (basic numbers and letters) from being negative...
> 
> But not many people were dumb enough to follow IBM.

Protoplast S/390 and AS/400 - S/360 was released in 1964,
ASCII in 1965.

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