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
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <338F531B.E83@cs.com>
References: <338EF81E DOT 320F AT wcug DOT wwu DOT edu>
Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp105.cs.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Precedence: bulk

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.

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
| John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I      |   mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com   |
| God's final message to His Creation: | http://www.cs.com/fighteer |
| "We apologize for the inconvenience."| <<< This tagline under >>> |
|                      - Douglas Adams | <<<    construction    >>> |
---------------------------------------------------------------------