Re: mint library fgetc

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

You write:

|> brad@tazboy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Brad Pickering) writes:
|> |> I have been playing around with Scheme->C under MiNT, trying
|> |> to track down why it doesn't work the same as under UNIX on
|> |> the Sun.  If anybody has ported Scheme->C to MiNT, could you
|> |> let me know.

|> I don't know about Scheme->C, but Jacal, the scheme to c compiler for
|> scm, runs strait out of the box.  It is available from any GNU
|> archive.

|> |> [...]
|> |> Below is part of the code for filbuf in the MiNT library.  It looks
|> |> like the EOF flag is not set if the file has the IODEV flag set.  I
|> |> don't think this code should care what kind of device it is reading
|> |> from.  What do you think?

|> Yes, i think this is a bug. EOF is EOF, whether it comes from a
|> terminal doesn't matter. If a program wants to continue reading from
|> the terminal after EOF, it should execute clearerr(f).

|> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|> Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
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