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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Rafael Garc a" <rafael AT geninfor DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:06:00 +0000
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"Rafael Garcİa" <rafael AT geninfor DOT com> asked:

> It fails with BOOL as char, but works as int
> Can someone explain this reasonably?
> It works well with Borland
> I have been using this typedef for years and it seems standard, robust,
> good, pretty, simple, near-machine, fast, compact...
> It seems gods of chaos are conquering the world of computing

Nope, you must read the specs, this function returns:

1) An int.
2) Nonzero if C is whitespace, else zero.

So it could return 0x100 and your char will be 0.
You should use:

a= isspace(b) ? 1 : 0;

SET


 
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