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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comp.lang.c
Keywords: fread,
Message-ID: <9832@alice.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 11:47:48 GMT
References: <744@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
Lines: 18

In article <744@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:

> The following line
> while (rtns = (fread(buf,5,10,ioptr)) == 10)
> rtns being an integer works as long as their are
> 50 byte chunks of data left to be read.

Your problem is that == binds more tightly than =, so that is
equivalent to

	while (rtns = ((fread(buf,5,10,ioptr)) == 10))

Instead you should say

	while ((rtns = fread(buf,5,10,ioptr)) == 10)
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com