GCC char* bug

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bruce Korb wrote:

> This should _never_ abort on a platform where libc and
> the compiler agree on the sign-ed-ness of char.  It
> aborts on Linux with GCC.  My claim is that that is wrong.
> Either getc/fgetc needs fixing, or GCC does.  Either way.

Re-read the specification of fgetc (C99 subclause 7.19.7.1).  It returns
"an unsigned char converted to an int".

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk