[Info-vax] C limitations, was: Re: VMS process communication

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On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 00:16 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Actually, this one is worse. char is implementation defined if it is 
> signed or not (really - the standard says so).
> If you think/assume they are signed, you're asking for it...

Which is why stdint.h (or cstdint) was invented with explicit types
(uint8_t, uint64_t etc)

But I also happen to agree zero terminated strings are evil.
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