From: eyal DOT ben-david AT aks DOT com
To: heretic AT polbox DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID: <422564D6.005C61DE.00@aks.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:54:27 +0200
Subject: Re: fread/fwite return value
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On 7/16/97 6:05:33 PM heretic wrote:

>So, I wanted to have error checking and I wrote something like
>
> if ( fread(blah,blah,blah) == -1 )
> {
>    oh_no_error ();
> }
>
>But compiler warned that I am comparing unsigned and signed. And it
>was right: size_t is unsigned long! Anyone knows how fread or fwrite
>can return -1 on error while its return value is unsigned?
>
cast .  now it is  0xFFFFFFFF.

if (fread (...) == (size_t) -1)
{
    .....
}


Eyal.