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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: TO C OR NOT TO *C
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Date: 18 Oct 89 05:37:28 GMT
References: <16107@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> <1989Oct16.172249.18387@utzoo.uucp>
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Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <1989Oct16.172249.18387@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry
Spencer) writes:
>Unless you have reason to be *absolutely certain* that end-of-file will
>not occur when attempting to read that character, the result of getc should
>*never* be assigned to a char without first testing to see if it is equal
>to EOF. 

Playing Devil's advocate, we bravely yet blithely break Henry Spencer's
every rule:

     char c;

     c = getc(stdin);           /* Oops! forgot to test for EOF! */
     do {
        if feof(stdin)
           break;               /* WHEW! */
        .. do stuff with c ..
        c = getc(stdin);
     } while (1);
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To BLUNGE or not to BLUNGE;    | Rahul Dhesi, Cirrusl Logic Inc.
That is the question.          | <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>

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