Re: PATCH: remove ancient STOUC() workaround

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 14/12/2022 16:52 Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The STOUC() macro is a wrapper for (unsigned char) casts that works
> around a compiler bug by doing ((unsigned char)(unsigned short)(X)) if
> autoconf detects the bug. This has been there since before the earliest
> (1995) list archives. I've never come across the need for this in any
> other C codebase. Surely whatever compiler needed this has long since
> ceased to be able to compile zsh for a myriad other reasons and been
> confined to a museum. A web search for the autoconf output of "signed to
> unsigned casting is broken..." finds matches with the word "no" but none
> with "yes". Or is there some further need for this that I'm missing?

I would imagine you're right and it's well past its shelf life.  The only
way to know with this ancient stuff is to suck it and see.

pws