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[Stewart Brodie]

In message <9ebc81d14a.Tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> As for development environment, DefMod has been recently ported to Unix,
> and it can now compile and run under Unix as well as RISC OS. This will
> feature in the next release, which I am currently preparing. I don't think
> that the signedness of char is an issue anywhere.

I believe that I should have fixed any issues of char signedness when I did
the UNIX port - I've certainly had defmod build and run OK on systems where
char is signed by default (gcc for SPARC Solaris; gcc for Intel Solaris; gcc
for Intel Linux) [*]

As you may have also noticed, SPARC Solaris is included - so hopefully I'll
have also caught any byte sex issues.  However, from what I recall, there
weren't really that many problems in the first place.


[*] Aside: If you have an ancient objasm/armasm for the build platform, you
may have trouble - I had to fix lots of signed char issues in our objasm
before it could assemble the defmod output, so it might have affected ARM's
software too.  However, we cannot distribute our objasm for anything other
than RISC OS (licence conditions)

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