Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Can someone explain why this fixes the problem. > > Think about a machine where char is signed by default. Extracting \254 > into an int will produce -2, which will not equal \254 returned by getc.
Oh, I thought that the int returned by getc already had that sign extension, but now I remember it doesn't. In fact, it specifically returns an int so -1 can be identified. Got it. Seems I am forgetting some of my C. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
