15 Jul
2011
15 Jul
'11
5:53 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:05:12 +0600, Brandon Kohn <blkohn@hotmail.com> wrote:
[snip] I found something that was a bit of a surprise though on msvc10. The 'char' type is not the same as int8_t (signed char) or uint8_t(unsigned char). I would have expected the former. I explicitly added char specialization to the args sent to the code generation macros, but I expect this won't be correct for all compilers.
MSVC is right. According to 3.9.1/1 of 14882:2003, "... Plain char, signed char, and unsigned char are three distinct types. ... and "... In any particular implementation, a plain char object can take on either the same values as a signed char or an unsigned char; which one is implementation-defined. ..."