Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Matching Data Types
Message-ID: <1990May2.171115.7240@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Apr27.000956.13201@mccc.uucp> <1990Apr30.164553.1693@utzoo.uucp> <1639@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 90 17:11:15 GMT

In article <1639@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>>(Hint:  EOF has to be something that is not a valid char value.)
>
>False.  In an implementation where sizeof(int)==1 (perfectly legal, as
>long as it's at least 16 bits), EOF might also be a valid char value.

I still think X3J11 should have held a competition like the POSIX one for
undesirable interpretations of the standard.  This would come under the
"most demented" heading to my mind. :-)
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