Re: uniform vector byte signed or unsigned

[Neil Jerram]

Kevin Ryde wrote:

> In scm_cvref it looks like a byvect byte is fetched as a "char", which
> is of course normally signed, but on some systems can be unsigned.
>
> Is a byte meant to be treated as signed?  It's probably worth making
> that explicit so scheme level stuff doesn't depend on the vagaries of
> C type conventions.

Good spot.  I've hit this on Windows, where it comes out as signed, and 
so I have to do a trivial conversion to an unsigned value.

My preference would be for the value to be unsigned in the first place, 
though.

Regards,
      Neil