Hi, On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, George Staikos wrote: > (really, explicitly specifying the signedness may only help half of > the cases I've seen. don't go there...) Don't know what you want to say with this. "unsigned char" and "signed char" are perfectly defined. Only "char" has the problem of platform dependend signedness. And just for completeness (because sometimes people are mislead by the above): this _only_ is true for "char". "short", "int" and "long" are signed by definition. Ciao, Michael.