Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH 4/5] chars: speed up the determination whether something is a control character

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016, at 09:46, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> +     return ((c[0] & 0xE0) == 0 || c[0] == 127 ||
> +                                     (c[0] == -62 && c[1] < -96));

My question is: is it permissible to assume that variables of type char
will have values in the range -128 .. 127?  Or are there platforms where
there are treated as all postive, 0 .. 255?

Benno

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