> Didn't there used to be a flag to the compiler to make it use char as
> signed?  (My memories are rather vague on these not having touched arm32 for
> over a year)  There's quite a lot of software that assumes that char is
> signed (or there used to be)
> 
> Chris
> 
> PS apologies if someone else has already said this but my email system has
> been down and suddenly lots of messages arrived in a big batch this morning.
> 
> 

Yes, -f(un)signed-char.  But this would change the ABI of the system, so 
it would be theoretically possible (meaning, I can't find a test case off 
hand) that it would break the library interfaces.

Richard.