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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you truncate a file?
Message-ID: <16128@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 May 91 03:25:53 GMT
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In article <12653@sybase.sybase.com> djd@sirdan.sybase.com (dan debrunner) writes:
>Actually a correct way would have been even better. Remember putchar()
>is a macro on many platforms which evaluates its argument twice.

It had better not be -- that is not only not conformant to the C standard,
it would break LOTS of code, such as the putchar(getchar()) loop.