infinite loop if char is unsigned

[Jakub Wilk]

make_limits function (Kern/rstr/src/cutpoint.c) falls into an infinite loop if the "char" type is unsigned. (Whether it is signed or unsigned is implementation defined, and it's in fact unsigned by default on some architectures.)

Because there are probably many other places where it is assumed thar "char" is signed, I propose the following work-around:

if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
    add_definitions("-fsigned-char")
endif()

[Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane)]

On the other hand, there are several places in the code that seem to assume that char is unsigned. These include switch clauses for character where the compared character has value larger than 127. These currently produce several "comparison always false due to out-of-range value" errors.

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[Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane)]

On Linux -funsigned-char works on some images (but worsens recognition results) and crashes on others.

[Jakub Wilk (jwilk)]

>On Linux -funsigned-char works on some images (but worsens recognition
>results) and crashes on others.

Yes, that's why I proposed forcibly using -fsigned-char.

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Jakub Wilk

[Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane)]

I suspect that there are several bugs at work here. Some that make it crash with unsigned and some that make it work with signed, even though it was not supposed to. (As I discussed above, some parts of the code seem to expect unsigned chars.)

Unfortunately I can't see any simple solution to this.