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/* The use of a temporary pointer and the casting games
* is needed to serve the dual purposes of
* (a) the hashed data being interpreted as "unsigned char" (new since 5.8,
- * a "char" can be either signed or signed, depending on the compiler)
+ * a "char" can be either signed or unsigned, depending on the compiler)
* (b) catering for old code that uses a "char"
*
* The "hash seed" feature was added in Perl 5.8.1 to perturb the results