MMBasic for Windows - alphas

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JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 4276	Posted: 09:36pm 22 Feb 2022         matherp said     Quote   With GCC you can tell the compiler whether unqualified chars should be treated as unsigned or signed, It has been a complete nightmare under C++ on VS2022 With your default every strlen, strcpy etc. would give a hard error because they only accept (char*) I use typedef to get uchar  (an unsigned char) - usually just an 8-bit item, often not a character schar  (a signed char) - hardly ever used char  (don't care) - commonly actually is a character Seems to survive porting well. OTOH I don't tend to be porting existing code written by someone else. I wonder if you could use C++ overloading to make strlen(unsigned char *) the same as strlen(char *). John