From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Usage of isspace and friends
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:07:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434E8650.7060604@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510130847190.15297@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Yeah, and I agree, that was a mistake. It could have been fixed by making
> EOF be MIN_INT (or any other value outside the range of either "unsigned
> char" or "signed char" - preferably still negative), but there are
> probably programs that depend on it being -1.
>
> The stupid thing I just posted doesn't care. It happens to return 0 for
> EOF for all cases, but that's a side effect of (a) not doing locales (so
> 255 is never printable or alpha) and (b) not even implementing iscntrl().
>
Given that for isprint() et al are useless for non-ASCII UTF-8 anyway,
might as well (they are not defined to be able to take wide character
values.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-13 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-12 1:40 Usage of isspace and friends Morten Welinder
2005-10-13 6:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-13 8:29 ` Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
2005-10-13 13:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-13 15:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-13 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-13 15:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-13 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-13 16:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-13 15:46 ` Linus Torvalds
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