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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ctype<char> custom table lookup in C++
Date: 20 May 2005 18:59:01 GMT
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CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

[...]

> > Only if you misunderstand how that table is supposed to be
> > constructed, in the case of DJGPP.  The C++ standard seems to
> > have forgotten about the C specialty of passing EOF into a
> > <ctype.h> library macro/function.

> Bear in mind that that uses the hidden assumption that EOF == -1.

I don't think I have to.  The problem, if any, is that the snippet
from the C++ standard quoted by the OP makes _any_ assumptions at all,
about how the C library might handle EOF, or how it might be
implemented.  Either the C++ committee has gone nuts, or the OP didn't
understand the context of the snippet he quoted.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.