Re: mpr: fix a compiler error on PowerPC

[Alexandre Julliard]

Francois Gouget  writes:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Austin English wrote:
> > CHAR defaults to unsigned char on PowerPC, so explicitly setting hi/lo
> > to signed char to avoid this error.
>
> CHAR is a Windows type so I don't think it's right for it to be unsigned 
> on PowerPC. Even more so since there is a UCHAR type.
>
> So I think the right thing to do is to fix the CHAR declaration in 
> wtypes.h and winnt.h.

No, CHAR is really supposed to be the same thing as char, since it's
used for strings. Otherwise you'll need casts all over the place.