Re: Classpath build process and VM-specific issues

[Etienne Gagnon]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Yes, but it's not a question of whether the type jbyte is the same
> size as a character type, but whether it is treated in the same way as
> a character by the compiler.

Hi Andrew.  Please look carefully at my proposal (sent minutes ago),
and tell me if it still contains non-portable bits.  I provide in it
a piece of C code that will generate warnings if jbyte is not treated
as signed char by the compiler, if I am right.  [Look at the test()
function].

Etienne

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