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Re: [MiNT] iscntrl(EOF)



Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

|> Hi,
|> 
|> in the absence of any reliable C reference I can only guess what
|> "iscntrl (EOF)" should return.  IMHO EOF should be classified as a control
|> character in the C locale.  The GNU libc says it isn't a control
|> character.
|> 
|> Could anybody check that either in the standard or on other platforms?

ISO C says that the domain of the <ctype.h> functions is
UCHAR_MIN..UCHAR_MAX + EOF.  They all shall return false for EOF, since
that is not a character and thus cannot have any of the tested properties.

Andreas.

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