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1?RCS: $Id: d_sgndchr.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $
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3?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
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5?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
6?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
7?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
8?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
9?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0.
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11?RCS: $Log: d_sgndchr.U,v $
12?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1997/02/28 15:44:25 ram
13?RCS: patch61: added a ?F: metalint hint
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15?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1995/07/25 14:00:24 ram
16?RCS: patch56: made cc and ccflags optional dependencies
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18?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:07:16 ram
19?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
20?RCS:
21?MAKE:d_sgndchr: cat rm +cc +ccflags Setvar
22?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
23?S:d_sgndchr:
24?S: This variable conditionally defines the SIGNEDCHAR symbol, which
25?S: indicates to the C program that signed characters are available.
26?S:.
27?C:SIGNEDCHAR:
28?C: This symbol, if defined, indicates that characters are a signed type.
29?C: If not defined, things declared as signed characters (and that make
30?C: use of negative values) should probably be declared as shorts instead.
31?C:.
32?H:#$d_sgndchr SIGNEDCHAR /**/
33?H:.
34?F:!try
35?LINT:set d_sgndchr
36: check for signed chars
37echo " "
38echo "Checking to see if your C compiler can do signed chars..." >&4
39$cat >try.c <<'EOCP'
40int main()
41{
42 char c = 0;
43
44 c--;
45 exit(c >= 0);
46}
47EOCP
48$cc $ccflags -o try try.c
49if ./try; then
50 val="$define"
51 echo "It certainly can."
52else
53 val="$undef"
54 echo "It can't. I'll have to make some things type short."
55fi
56set d_sgndchr
57eval $setvar
58$rm -f try*
59