Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun.dspo.gov!lanl!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Atomic #defines (was Re: Password checking program) Message-ID: <10867@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 29 Aug 89 20:00:28 GMT References: <15257@duke.cs.duke.edu> <652@lakart.UUCP> <10765@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1625@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <13899@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <13899@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes: > #if EOF != -2 This assumes more than the standard guarantees about EOF. In particular, EOF might be defined as an enumeration constant. That's unlikely, but permitted.