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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: avoid compiler warning
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:32:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8237BA.20701@byu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A819D67.7060301@zytor.com>

According to H. Peter Anvin on 8/11/2009 10:33 AM:
> Herbert... the *type* is int, but the *value* has to be in the range
> [-1,UCHAR_MAX] or the behavior is undefined in both the C and POSIX
> standards.

Actually, the *value* has to be either EOF (which is negative, but not
necessarily required to be -1) or [0,UCHAR_MAX].  But you are correct that
for most (all?) platforms, EOF is -1 even though it is not mandated as such.

-- 
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-09 12:55 avoid compiler warning Eric Blake
2009-08-11  4:03 ` Herbert Xu
2009-08-11 16:33   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-11 21:56     ` Herbert Xu
2009-08-11 22:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-12  3:19       ` Eric Blake
2009-08-31 11:30       ` Eric Blake
2009-08-31 11:31         ` Herbert Xu
2009-08-12  3:32     ` Eric Blake [this message]
2009-08-12  3:30   ` Eric Blake

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