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Streams and eof()

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From: Axel Thimm
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 20:43
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Hello,

I have had a look in the April draft, but I think that there is a small
ambiguity about eof() methods in streams.
Is the eof-flag raised, when the end of the stream is reached, or when
an attempt to move past this end is made? I think the most common
practice is the latter, but the ANSI draft uses the former statement.
Declaring the end of a stream as the first charachter _after_ the last
character of the stream would rescue the expression, but wouldn't fit
into a concept of an end. (Usually one thinks of an end as belonging to
the whole)
As I am rather convinced, that the eof is raised at an attempt to meove
past the end, I'd like to ask how to check this in a binary file without
having to perform a movement.

Regards,
	Axel.
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Axel Thimm <axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Freie Universitaet Berlin
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From: axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm)
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Subject: Streams and eof()
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 20:43:31 GMT
Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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