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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/28/2023 4:06 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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)

They should be used.

Just note that the spec says "These types are optional.", but
I suspect that all the common platforms has them.

Arne