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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] C and in-band signalling (was: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0
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Date: 2000/03/06
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
[...]
> You would have the same problem on a platform with a signed char type. As far
> as I know EOF should not be used with binary data. Those kind of data is best
> handled with read() and write() or a functional equivalent.

The C input routines are defined in terms of getc(), which returns the
next byte as an *unsigned* char converted to int.  As long as int is
big enough to hold all possible unsigned char values, plus EOF (which
is typically -1), you can safely use EOF with binary data.

Yes, this is *way* off-topic.

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