Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
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Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Sun Jun 05 2005 - 16:16:35 CEST



Hank Oredson wrote:


[snip]


> 


> Can someone explain to me the difference between a signed 'A'


> and an unsigned 'A'? Or were you not speaking of characters


> but instead speaking of the value used to represent that character?



Characters sent to the old TTY printing terminals and paper tape


punches used to have parity bits.  On 8 bit char variables the parity 


bit goes into the sign bit.



Andrew Swallow


Received on Thu Sep 29 21:40:18 2005