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Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
Date 2017-06-22 12:28 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> On 22/06/17 19:41, David Brown wrote:
>> On 22/06/17 19:26, bartc wrote:
>>> On 22/06/2017 18:21, Keith Thompson wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>>> As you know, the signedness of plain char is implementation-defined.
>>>
>>> But IME it tends to be signed.
>>
>> On x86 it is usually signed.  On other targets, it can be different.
>
> On IBM mainframe systems (eg MVS), it is often unsigned. (I /think/ it's 
> always unsigned on systems that use EBCDIC, but I don't know for sure, 
> so I'll stick to 'often' for now.)

Assuming CHAR_BIT==8 (and I seriously doubt that an EBCDIC-based
implementation would have CHAR_BIT>8), plain char has to be unsigned
in an EBCDIC implementation.

6.2.5p3: "If a member of the basic execution character set is stored
in a char object, its value is guaranteed to be nonnegative."
Most members of the basic execution character set, including all
the letters and digits, have EBCDIC codes exceeding 127.

[...]

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Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-20 12:48 -0400
  Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-20 18:08 +0100
    Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-21 09:32 -0400
      Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-21 13:48 +0000
  Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-20 18:15 +0100
    Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-20 18:00 -0400
      Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-20 18:47 -0400
        Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-21 00:10 +0100
        Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-20 19:56 -0400
  Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-20 13:23 -0400
    Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-20 18:59 -0400
  Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-20 19:23 +0100
    Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-20 18:59 -0400
      Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2017-06-20 19:46 -0400
      Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-21 02:05 +0100
        Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-20 21:37 -0400
          Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-21 09:25 +0100
          Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-21 13:35 +0200
            Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-21 22:30 -0400
              Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-22 11:03 +0100
              Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-22 11:10 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-22 11:42 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-22 13:49 +0200
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-22 14:40 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-22 17:00 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-22 20:08 +0200
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-22 15:46 -0400
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-22 14:00 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-22 14:38 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-22 17:26 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-22 10:21 -0700
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-06-22 18:26 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-06-22 20:41 +0200
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-06-22 19:59 +0100
                Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-22 12:28 -0700
          Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-06-21 09:49 -0400
            Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-21 10:36 -0400
              Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-06-21 14:15 -0400
          Re: Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-21 15:10 +0100

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