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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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Subject: Re: RFA: char is unsigned on some architectures
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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:14:00 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > 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.

Certainly.  How is this?

Index: gdbint.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -c -c -b -F'^(' -r1.48 gdbint.texinfo
*** gdbint.texinfo	2001/12/15 16:53:24	1.48
--- gdbint.texinfo	2001/12/20 09:13:22
***************
*** 3501,3506 ****
--- 3501,3517 ----
  @findex TARGET_CHAR_BIT
  Number of bits in a char; defaults to 8.
  
+ @item TARGET_CHAR_SIGNED
+ @findex TARGET_CHAR_SIGNED
+ Non-zero if @code{char} is normally signed on this architecture; zero if
+ it should be unsigned.
+ 
+ The ISO C standard requires the compiler to treat @code{char} as
+ equivalent to either @code{signed char} or @code{unsigned char}; any
+ character in the standard execution set is supposed to be positive.
+ Most compilers treat @code{char} as signed, but @code{char} is unsigned
+ on the IBM S/390, RS6000, and PowerPC targets.
+ 
  @item TARGET_COMPLEX_BIT
  @findex TARGET_COMPLEX_BIT
  Number of bits in a complex number; defaults to @code{2 * TARGET_FLOAT_BIT}.