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+#ifndef RBIMPL_ARITHMETIC_CHAR_H /*-*-C++-*-vi:se ft=cpp:*/
+#define RBIMPL_ARITHMETIC_CHAR_H
+/**
+ * @file
+ * @author Ruby developers <ruby-core@ruby-lang.org>
+ * @copyright This file is a part of the programming language Ruby.
+ * Permission is hereby granted, to either redistribute and/or
+ * modify this file, provided that the conditions mentioned in the
+ * file COPYING are met. Consult the file for details.
+ * @warning Symbols prefixed with either `RBIMPL` or `rbimpl` are
+ * implementation details. Don't take them as canon. They could
+ * rapidly appear then vanish. The name (path) of this header file
+ * is also an implementation detail. Do not expect it to persist
+ * at the place it is now. Developers are free to move it anywhere
+ * anytime at will.
+ * @note To ruby-core: remember that this header can be possibly
+ * recursively included from extension libraries written in C++.
+ * Do not expect for instance `__VA_ARGS__` is always available.
+ * We assume C99 for ruby itself but we don't assume languages of
+ * extension libraries. They could be written in C++98.
+ * @brief Arithmetic conversion between C's `char` and Ruby's.
+ */
+#include "ruby/internal/arithmetic/int.h" /* NUM2INT is here, but */
+#include "ruby/internal/arithmetic/long.h" /* INT2FIX is here.*/
+#include "ruby/internal/attr/artificial.h"
+#include "ruby/internal/attr/const.h"
+#include "ruby/internal/attr/constexpr.h"
+#include "ruby/internal/cast.h"
+#include "ruby/internal/core/rstring.h"
+#include "ruby/internal/value_type.h"
+
+#define RB_NUM2CHR rb_num2char_inline /**< @alias{rb_num2char_inline} */
+#define NUM2CHR RB_NUM2CHR /**< @old{RB_NUM2CHR} */
+#define CHR2FIX RB_CHR2FIX /**< @old{RB_CHR2FIX} */
+
+/** @cond INTERNAL_MACRO */
+#define RB_CHR2FIX RB_CHR2FIX
+/** @endcond */
+
+RBIMPL_ATTR_CONST_UNLESS_DEBUG()
+RBIMPL_ATTR_CONSTEXPR_UNLESS_DEBUG(CXX14)
+RBIMPL_ATTR_ARTIFICIAL()
+/**
+ * Converts a C's `unsigned char` into an instance of ::rb_cInteger.
+ *
+ * @param[in] c Arbitrary `unsigned char` value.
+ * @return An instance of ::rb_cInteger.
+ *
+ * @internal
+ *
+ * Nobody explicitly states this but in Ruby, a char means an unsigned integer
+ * value of range 0..255. This is a general principle. AFAIK there is no
+ * single line of code where char is signed.
+ */
+static inline VALUE
+RB_CHR2FIX(unsigned char c)
+{
+ return RB_INT2FIX(c);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Converts an instance of ::rb_cNumeric into C's `char`. At the same time it
+ * accepts a String of more than one character, and returns its first byte. In
+ * the early days there was a Ruby level "character" literal `?c`, which
+ * roughly worked this way.
+ *
+ * @param[in] x Either a string or a numeric.
+ * @exception rb_eTypeError `x` is not a numeric.
+ * @exception rb_eRangeError `x` is out of range of `unsigned int`.
+ * @return The passed value converted into C's `char`.
+ */
+static inline char
+rb_num2char_inline(VALUE x)
+{
+ if (RB_TYPE_P(x, RUBY_T_STRING) && (RSTRING_LEN(x)>=1))
+ return RSTRING_PTR(x)[0];
+ else
+ return RBIMPL_CAST((char)RB_NUM2INT(x));
+}
+
+#endif /* RBIMPL_ARITHMETIC_CHAR_H */