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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released
Date: 2000/02/07
Date: 2000-02-08T00:01:57+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7r9eosgsi.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ya8wok07.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org

Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
> You are right for text files.  For binary files, there has to be
> a bijection between the internal and external representation of
> characters.  This means that the value EOF can occur in a binary stream
> if sizeof(char) equals sizeof(int).

Agreed. When you are coding for such a case in C or C++, you must then use
one of the several input methods which separate content and status. In C,
you can use fread, or test with feof. C++ additionally allows the use of
istream.get(char &), which returns a status value.




  reply	other threads:[~2000-02-07  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-27  0:00 Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released Ted Dennison
2000-01-28  0:00 ` Jürgen Pfeifer
2000-01-28  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31  0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01  0:00     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00       ` David Starner
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-01  0:00           ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-02  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00             ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-02  0:00             ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-04  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05  0:00           ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-04  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-07  0:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-07  0:00           ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-07  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2000-02-09  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-09  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-09  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-17  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17  0:00                 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17  0:00                   ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17  0:00                       ` Hyman Rosen
     [not found]                   ` <88iuk2$s6d3@ftp.kvaerner.com>
2000-03-05  0:00                     ` [OT] C and in-band signalling (was: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released) Florian Weimer
2000-03-06  0:00                       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-06  0:00                         ` Keith Thompson
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