[dvblast-devel] tiny bug on platform where char is unsigned

Marian Ďurkovič md at bts.sk
Mon Oct 19 15:17:58 CEST 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 01:54:45PM +0100, Andy Gatward wrote:
> On 19/10/2009 12:46, "Marian Ďurkovič" <md at bts.sk> wrote:
> 
> > Just a small change - I replaced (int)EOF with -1 according to manpage
> > (EOF is defined in different header and hence not supposed here)
> 
> The manpage is incorrect here and on some systems EOF isn't -1.  I would
> prefer to leave this as is (as I do actually have a system where EOF != -1).

Hmm, what kind of system is that and what's the (int) return value from
getopt there?

Both Linux and FreeBSD libc definitely have 

return -1;

in the source so the manpages are actually telling the truth.

   With kind regards,

         M.


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