[RFC] Signed/unsigned character arrays are not strings

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:59:41 +0100, mathieu lacage wrote:
...
> I don't know how useful that is to you but a lot of people (the first
> which comes to my mind is libxml2) decided to use "unsigned char *" to
> identify utf-8 encoded strings in C.

Together with the attached RMS's response I became more inclined to revert this
change and provide only "$xmm"-specific fix instead (probably for the GDB
int8_t/uint8_t internal types).

OK to submit the patch?


Jan
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