[Snowball-discuss] sb_symbol

[Richard Boulton]

2009/7/8 Richard Boulton <richard at lemurconsulting.com>:
> I can't remember any details other than that, I'm afraid.  The
> internal "symbol" type referred to here is defined in runtime/api.h -
> I'm not sure if changing it to "char" instead of "unsigned char" would
> break anything (but I wouldn't be surprised if it did).

Just checked, and changing this certainly does break things - for
example, in the generated src_c/stem_UTF_8_finnish.c, there's a line:

if (z->c - 2 <= z->lb || z->p[z->c - 1] != 164) return 0;

The comparison to != 164 is always true if symbol is char, since the
range of char is -128 to 127.

-- 
Richard