Compiling errors on F11 64-bit; question on sending in patch files

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Alex,

your patch looks very good! I've committed this to SVN now (unfortunately I 
missed 2.3.3).

I've split the patch in two; one with the type changes, which are likely to 
not introduce any problems, and another patch with the newly added casts. By 
the way, where does BAD_CAST come from? I didn't know it and I didn't see a  
declaration anywhere. I only saw this already being used a lot.

And this whole issue with signed and unsigned chars in strings is a big mess 
of C. A (string) character should be a character and not having any 
signedness, but well, we have to live with the language as it is.

Thanks a lot for your contribution!

Christian

Am Dienstag, 21. Juli 2009 06:40 schrieb J. Alex Aycinena:
> >> thanks for pointing this out. Apparently you've run into one very nasty
> >> thing in the C language: It is unspecificed whether a "char" is signed
> >> or not. That is, in one compiler a "char" is a "signed char" whereas on
> >> another compiler it is an "unsigned char".
>
> I attach a patchfile with the changes. If it looks Ok to you I would
> be grateful if you could apply it.