Why unsigned chars not default?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <207600005 at s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Although there is a simple fix (change 'char' to 'short int'), AT&T,
>through several releases, *still* hasn't gotten it to work.
>Who knows what other bugs are floating around because of something
>like this?

Apparently nobody is paid to go around cleaning up old (yet still
important) code.  My favorite was the "#if u3b5|u3b2"s scattered
around in the PWB/Graphics sources where fixing the original bug
("char c=getchar()" etc.) right would have been much simpler.

One would hope that by now all the bugs that Guy Harris, I, and
others tracked down have been fixed in the AT&T master sources,
but somehow I doubt it.