Re: Binding to feof

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:
> I've been experimenting with a binding to C's lightweight I/O library
> (fopen, fclose, feof, fgetc, fgets, fputc, fputs). Everything seems to
> work fine except feof, which always returns zero (False).

Keep in mind that C's feof() function returns true *after* an
attempted input operation has failed by reaching the end of the file;
Ada's End_Of_File function returns true if the *next* attempted input
will fail by reaching the end of the file.

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