Re: C standard question?

In message <slrng2jnk1.9p5.willem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Willem 
<willem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>Chris wrote:
>) In message <slrng2jh6c.1pn.willem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Willem
>)<willem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>)>Chris H wrote:
>)>) In message <48299ac3.2182222981@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Richard Bos
>)>)<rlb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>)>)>Chris H <chris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>)>)>
>)>)>> Do compilers still accept char unsigned?  Some used to but I bet
many
>)>)>> don't now
>)>)>
>)>)>They had bloody better. You may not like it, but, like voting for
Gordon
>)>)>Brown, it's perfectly legal even if unusual and in some people's
opinion
>)>)>disgusting.
>)>)
>)>) Some one, elsewhere in this thread, did a search on "char unsigned"
and
>)>) go no hits at all.
>)>)
>)>) Has any one actually seen "char unsigned" used anywhere?
>)>
>)>Irrelevant.
>)
>) Why?
>
>Because the C standard sais so.  Whether it's used or not is irrelevant.
>
>) If it is something no one has used and no one has seen used  (and some
>) people hare can remember back to the start of C) why is it still there?
>
>Why bother to change the standard for something that isn't used anyway ?

Point taken.

It is just that it seems no one has ever seen it used.

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