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In this noncompliant code example, the char-type variable c may be signed or unsigned. Assuming 8-bit, two's complement character types, this code may either print out i/c = 5 (unsigned) or i/c = -17 (signed). It is much more difficult to reason about the correctness of a program without knowing if these integers are signed or unsigned.

char c = 200;
int i = 1000;
printf("i/c = %d\n", i/c);

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In this compliant solution, the variable c is declared as unsigned char. The subsequent division operation is now independent of the signedness of char and consequently has a predictable result.

unsigned char c = 200;
int i = 1000;
printf("i/c = %d\n", i/c);

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