On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:20, Anthony Towns wrote: > Just fix the bug. The usual ways of doing so for bugs like this is to > make use of gcc's -fsigned-char option, [...] Eww! Better to find the real bug and fix it (e.g. by explicitly specifying signed char, or changing char -> int, etc.). That way people using other compilers can benefit too. -fsigned-char is sort of acceptable as a temporary bandaid though.