Hi Bob.

 BS> Simple... Most of the character functions (e.g. getc()) have to
 BS> return an int in order to be able to return an error condition -
 BS> typically -1. If it returned a char, -1 would simply be 0xff which
 BS> is a legal character. By returning an int, an error is
 BS> unambiguously larger than a character

here all the standard libraries are built with signed chars, so that doesn't
work.



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