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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with u_char
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 22:22:19 +0000
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Cameron J. Mallory wrote:
> 
> Hello all, I have a question about declaring u_char things.
> 
> The problem seems that gcc doesn't like me when I try that,
> Here is the requested info. that was asked for from the web page

There is no such data type in ANSI C.  Perhaps you mean "unsigned
char"?  If so, that's what you should use.  Alternatively, there is no
reason why you can't do:

typedef unsigned char u_char;

or even

#define u_char unsigned char

Then, "u_char" will be a valid data type.

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