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From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released
Date: 2000/02/04
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Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:

> By the way, the normal C/C++ style for handling EOF is to have the
> return type of the character reader be such that it can hold any
> value of the character set, plus an out-of-band value representing
> EOF. The usual is '#define EOF -1' and 'int getchar()'.

Unfortunately, this becomes inband signalling on some platforms (where
sizeof(char) == sizeof(int)).  Broken as designed.