Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Quirk??
Message-ID: <186@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 18:10:07 GMT
References: <1653@ssc-vax.UUCP> <804@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <23498@hi.unm.edu>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <804@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
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>#define               clearline()             while (getchar() != '\n')

This is seriously bad code.  What if stdin reaches end of file?

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