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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released
Date: 2000/02/09
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Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
> > Unfortunately, this becomes inband signalling on some platforms (where
> > sizeof(char) == sizeof(int)).  Broken as designed.
> 
> No. It's only in-band if on those platforms, input characters do in fact
> range over the full set of representable values of a char.

But "char" in C is just the smallest integer type.  There's no reason to
believe that reading a "char" has anything to do with characters/text,
despite its misleading name.

- Bob