From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: signed - unsigned chars
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"Petr Maxa" <maxa AT sse-za DOT sk> wrote in message
<000701bf63ef$41a61440$0307028a AT prmivv03>...
>Hi I am just porting a code from Borland C++, and there is a possibility in
>"Compiler->Code Generation" to set "Unsigned chars" (option -K) and in "C++
>Options->C++ Compatibility" set "Do not treat 'char' as distinct type"
>(option -K2).
>
>I am working on a project, where is very important to have all chars as
>unsigned types. There is now a problem to accomplish this, as compiler
>treats constant chars as signed types.

typedef unsigned char byte;

and use byte instead of char.

const byte tilde = '~';

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