mpr: fix a compiler error on PowerPC

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Fri Jan 9 16:17:05 CST 2009


On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> >
> >> No, CHAR is really supposed to be the same thing as char, since it's
> >> used for strings. Otherwise you'll need casts all over the place.
> >
> > Ideally we'd check whether 'char' was signed or unsigned in Visual C++ 
> > for PowerPC (there was a Windows NT 3.51 for PowerPC). I doubt that 
> > Microsoft would have made it unsigned and then we'd need to do the same 
> > to really be source compatibile.
> 
> Sure, but we would do that by adding -fsigned-char in winegcc, not by
> making CHAR and char two different types.

Oh. Good point. I forgot about that one. I guess that's a hint for 
Austin <g>...


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