Re: chars in conditional expression, 3b2 C compiler

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1987 18:00

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In article <189@olamb.UUCP> kimcm@olamb.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) writes:
-The only thing that really bugs me is the fact that chars are unsigned
-and therefore the following code will fail:
-	while ((c=getc(stream)) != EOF) putchar(c);
-And you will have to redefine EOF to 255 (0377 or 0xff) or cast it to a char!

I suspect there will be a zillion follow-ups explaining
that getc() returns an (int), not a (char), and that EOF
should remain defined as -1.  This has been hashed over
many times in net.lang.c.  It is not a bug in the 3B2 C
implementation.

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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: chars in conditional expression, 3b2 C compiler
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 13:00:13 EST
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