[Nut-upsdev] gcc4 compiler warnings

[Arjen de Korte]

> On a side note: The signedness of char differs betweeen OS's. On some,
> char's are signed and on some char's are unsigned. If you really
> depend on the signedness to be what you expect, use signed char or
> unsigned char...

It seems that we have come to the conclusion that we want unsigned char's.

> So, if you force stuff to be either signed or unsigned you'll probably
> get warnings when using strcmp et al on architectures that are
> different from the one the developer used.

Not neccessarily. It only means that when you use these functions, it is a
good idea to typecast whatever you put into them with (char *) to make it
conform to whatever the OS uses.

Regards, Arjen