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From: karl@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ungetc
Message-ID: <1556@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 15:18:37 EST
Article-I.D.: haddock.1556
Posted: Fri Oct 30 15:18:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 05:38:47 EST
References: <6592@brl-smoke.ARPA> <165600020@uiucdcsb>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Summary: Arg must be int, not char

In article <165600020@uiucdcsb> mccaugh@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Not sure why you want an int for first argument to 'ungetc' -- Harbison&Steele
>report char, not int (page 316). ...  Also, trying to push EOF has no effect

If EOF is permitted as an argument (and has a different result than 0xFF),
then the argument had better not be of type char.  H&S must've goofed here.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint