[tex-k] Wrong constant value?

[Karl Berry]

       #define SCHAR_MAX 127

Indeed. Fixed, thanks.

    It has never mattered in kpathsea, I suppose, because no other kpathsea
    source files appear to use the constant that I can tell.

grep reports that SCHAR_MAX (and SCHAR_MIN) is used in web2c-parser.y
(and nowhere else in TL's source tree). I suspect there are a
combination of reasons why the error has never mattered. One being that
on (I suppose) all modern systems, <limits.h> defines the values so the
kpse values are never used. They are only there as a fallback.

    TeX's code avoids treating the most negative twos-complement value for
    an integer as legal, so that any integer value can be negated safely.

Judging by my comments in c-minmax.h, I guess I was looking at some
standard for ANSI C (ca.1992) which specified the lowest/highest
acceptable values. I doubt I had the brains or memory to compare with
TeX. But I suppose ANSI C eschewed the most-negative number for the same
reason as TeX, since as far as I can recall it wasn't supposed to
require twos-complement machines ... --thanks, karl.