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20 years ago

char takes 4 bytes?

char test_char=-5; printf("test_char %x,%x,%x\n",test_char,(char)test_char,(unsign char)test_char); We expect the output was: >test_char fb,fb,fb but we got : >test_char fffffffb,ffff...
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20 years ago

Mountain,

Mask it with 0xff, this will "cut" off the upper 24 bits.

if((test_char&0xff)==good)

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