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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: is it really necessary for character values to be positive?
Message-ID: <600@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 01:15:36 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.600
Posted: Mon Jan 12 01:15:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 16:22:46 EST
References: <39@houligan.UUCP> <289@haddock.UUCP> <548@brl-sem.ARPA> <293@haddock.UUCP>
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In article <293@haddock.UUCP>, karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer) writes:
> [Your suggestion] supports my contention that making getchar() an int
> function was a mistake in the first place.**

> **I do have what I think is a better idea, but I'm not going to
> describe it in this posting.

How about in another posting then?

What I normally do is something more like

	char c;					/* yes, char! */
	....
	c = getc(stream);			/* or getchar() if stdin */
	if (feof(stream) || ferror(stream))
	 { ....
	 }

ie, *ignore* the EOF return and check explicitly.

Is this better? worse? than the int c; c=getc(stream); if (c==EOF)
approach?  Why?

					der Mouse

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