Corinna Vinschen wrote:
In addition to fread not setting the error value, a value
of zero is returned. Zero is to be returned, *only* on
end-of-file or error. However, in the test case, neither
That's not correct. Any value less than size*nitems indicates either
EOF or an error. The programmer is responsible to test with feof() or
ferror() to distinguish between these two cases. See
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Er, are you referring to the case of zero possibly being
a valid return value if the program requests zero bytes be read?
I didn't say "only 0"... I new about the other values<count,
but was focusing on the conditions that would exist only when
a 0 was returned for the return value.
I debugged your testcase and the problem appears to be in __srefill(),
defined in newlib/libc/stdio/refill.c:
....Cool!
Linda
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