[RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Sat Aug 25 10:19:00 GMT 2007
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:17:57 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> Here's option 1 instead:
>
> 1. Make vector types special. Treat arrays of single byte integers
> as characters, like before, unless they occur in a vector type. This
> is reasonable, but tricky to implement.
>
> It restores the historic behavior for unsigned char and signed char.
> Only the behavior of vector registers has changed. You basically
> never want to print these as strings, but since I had already
> implemented print/s I kept it.
>
> Comments? Mark, is this better?
The patches for documentation are okay with me.
Thanks.
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