Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Bryan Olson (nameless_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:16:37 GMT

Phil Carmody wrote:

>>EOF is -1 by tradition (the standard requires it to be some
>>negative value). When type char is signed, -1 is also a legal
>>character in a binary file. Thus the getc() function can return
>>-1 in two very different cases: end of file, or the -1
>>character. The code above assumes any return of EOF means end-
>>of-file.
>
>
>
> <<<
> 7.19.7.1 The fgetc function
[...]
> the fgetc function obtains that character as an
> unsigned char converted to an int and advances the
> associated file position indicator for the stream (if
> defined).

O.K. My mistake again. Again H&S seems to indicate otherwise. 

-- 
--Bryan

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