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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Where is isascii(c)?
Keywords: 1.5.0 isascii() ctype.h
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Date: 1 Feb 90 11:15:29 GMT
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In article <2300@psueea.UUCP> kirkenda@eecs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
>The Minix <ctype.h> macros are only defined for values over the range [-1,127].
>According to the definition you've quoted, they should be defined over the
>range [-1,255] for the Minix compilers.  We have to extend the _ctype[] array.

If ANSI requires the range 0-255, I'll do it.  What section of the draft
standard specifies that one has to handle 128-255?  What values should
one put in the table above 127?  All 0s?

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)