Re: gnome-pim: Cannot open user-cal.vcf or GnomeCard.gcrd on PPC

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

I wrote

   CMC> Assuming that char is unsigned may be fine if you can

when, of course, I meant to say that assuming that char is either
signed *or* unsigned is a bad idea.  Whoops.

   C.

P.S. If you want a signed char, you should declare it as `signed
char'; for an unsigned char, declare it as `unsigned char'.  Code
with the wrong assumptions for a given platform can still be
compiled on that platform by using the `-fsigned-char' or
`-funsigned-char' options to gcc.  Even better, since most of the
broken code assumes that char is signed, simply using
`-fsigned-char' for all platforms will solve the problem by
telling the compiler to always assume that char is signed.  That's
still not as good a solution as having the code use sensible types
such as `int8_t', `uint8_t', and so on.


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