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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:04:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: RFA: char is unsigned on some architectures
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Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> ISO C specifies that `char' acts like either `signed char' or
> `unsigned char'.  At the moment, GDB assumes that `char' is `signed
> char'.  This patch allows the architecture to specify the correct
> answer, and sets the value correctly for the IBM S/390 architecture.
> 
> 2001-12-19  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> 
>         * gdbarch.sh (TARGET_CHAR_SIGNED): New macro.

This new macro should be documented in gdbint.texinfo, I think.