Re: patch: signed char issues

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:51:38 -0400

Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com> said:
> Here's a handful of patches for areas of the kernel that assume `char' is
> a signed type. It was generated against 2.3.99-pre3 but it seems to apply
> cleanly against -pre5 as well.

Are you sure this is really needed? On a machine with native unsigned char
this might be a sizeable performance impact for each use.

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