On 2 June 2011 18:09, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at <mailto:dot@dotat.at>> wrote:
Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch <mailto:marc@msys.ch>> wrote:
>
> What does the standard say is*() should return if the argument is
EOF?
> Is that specified at all?
It seems to be unspecified. This is probably a bug in the standard.
Here's a link to C99 with all the technical corrigenda included. The
relevant part is section 7.4 starting on page 181.
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
Tony.
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Although the C99 standard does not state it, the C99 rationale v5.1[1] does
"*7.4.1Character classification functions *
**The definitions of /printing character /and /control character /have
been generalized from ASCII.
Note that none of these functions returns a nonzero value (true) for the
argument value *EOF*."