Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: draft ANSI standard: one change that would *really* help Europe Message-ID: <518@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 14:24:36 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.518 Posted: Sun Dec 14 14:24:36 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 03:02:16 EST References: <1382@hoptoad.uucp> <8322@lll-crg.ARpA> <2221@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <10429@sun.uucp> Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab Lines: 9 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:391 comp.std.internat:49 Correct me if I am wrong, but there is no place in STDIO where EOF is ever meant to be applied to a character. The only thing that EOF is defined for is functions returning int. Second, nowhere is it stated that (unsigned) -1 will give you a word of all ones. Becareful when making this assumption. I spend a lot of time fixing up the Berkeley network code because of this. -Ron