rust-lang/rust — pull request #19787 by akiss77 (2014-12-12 22:53:11+00:00)
Title: libc::c_char is not necessarily i8

On AArch64, libc::c_char is u8. There are some places in the code where i8 is assumed, which causes compilation errors.

(AArch64 is not officially supported yet, but this change does not hurt any other targets and makes the code future-proof.)