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Re: bootstrap/5149: gcc-20011217 reads beyond EOF on cygwin
Christopher Faylor wrote:-
> Can I ask why we'd be reading beyond EOF? Is it guaranteed that bytes beyond
> EOF will be zero on UNIX?
This was discussed in September (see thread in gcc@ entitled "Bumming
cycles out of parse_identifier"). It was decided that all known
current Unix implementations have zeros until the next page boundary.
Assuming EOF is indicated by a NUL is used as a lexer optimization.
Neil.