[TUHS] origins of void* -- Apology!
Tony Finch
dot at dotat.at
Wed Nov 8 22:48:47 AEST 2017
Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> % cat *.log | grep '^ char type is' | sort | uniq -c
> 157 char type is signed
> 3 char type is unsigned
>
> The sole outliers are
>
> * Arch Linux ARM on armv7l
> * IBM CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 on PowerPC-8
> * SGI IRIX 6.5 on MIPS R10000-SC
Nice survey, thanks!
I learned C using the Norcroft C compiler on early Acorn / ARM machines
where char was unsigned. That is still the case, though ARM have switched
from Norcroft to clang.
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0774h/kpr1493281322162.html
(And I started learning about unix from reading articles about RISC iX,
Acorn's 4.3BSD port to the Archimedes.)
Tony.
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