From 2011800355750841272 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1149ec,c5e1f3188bfb5123 X-Google-Attributes: gid1149ec,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,c5e1f3188bfb5123 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-30 16:26:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!bignews.mediaways.net!news.nikoma.de!tiscalinetde!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!grolier!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Team-Rocket@gmx.net (Niklas Matthies) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.std.c Subject: Re: C and C++ Standard incompatibility for signed character type Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:25:12 GMT Organization: Team Rocket Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <39F254C8.510803FB@null.net> <8666mkbq7h.fsf@gabi-soft.de> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 972951920 mail2news:20284 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Lines: 20 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.std.c++:1782 comp.std.c:1469 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:51:03 GMT, Francis Glassborow wrote: > In article , > Niklas Matthies writes > >It's not (in C). The uninitialized chars may have trap values (for the > >type char) > > Please quote text to support this claim It's the other way round. The standard does not specify such a guarantee (unless I missed something), therefore there is none. -- Niklas --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ]