Re: C standard question?

fchang@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2008, Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote:
>> As for the the whole "char unsigned" versus "unsigned char" thing,
>> well I don't care to debate in anymore but it's such a ridiculously
>> stupid thing in my head. The very fact that Mr Klein even brought up
>> the issue makes me wonder what's going thru his head
> 
> I have a purely statisical comment with no value judgement whatsoever
> (and notice that I only use the word "I" and "we" in the following
> message).
> 
> I just grepped several large code base that I happened to have unzipped
> on my machine.
> 
>   FreeBSD 7.0 kernel source code (7141 files totalling 123M)
>   "unsigned char" appeared 2089 times.
>   "char unsigned" never appeared
> 
>   PostgreSQL 8.3.1 complete source code (3325 files totaling 81M).
>   "unsigned char" appeared 1301 times.
>   "char unsigned" never appeared
> 
>   MySQL 5.1.22 complete source code (6754 files totaling 164M)
>   "unsigned char" appeared 1732 times.
>   "char unsigned" never appeared
> 
>   QT 4.3.1 complete source code for XWindows (13204 files totaling 175M)
>   "unsigned char" appeared 1018 times.
>   "char unsigned" never appeared.
> 
>   FFMpeg video encoder and decoder vesion 2007/10/4 (714 files, 14M)
>   "unsigned char" appeared 1083 times.
>   "char unsigned" never appeared.
> 
OpenSolaris core 18630 files
  "unsigned char" appeared 10135 times.
  "char unsigned" never appeared 0 times.

-- 
Ian Collins.