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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
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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.