signed vs unsigned pointer warning

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Sat Oct 9 01:39:00 GMT 2004


"Matthias B." <msbREMOVE-THIS@winterdrache.de> writes:

> So what? On my system all the is* calls return the same thing for EOF as
> they do for 255, namely 0. Is there an actual locale where any of the
> is*() calls returns non-zero for 255? In any case, for the usual western
> locales, your argument is invalid.

For any locale that uses the Latin-1 character set isalpha(255) returns
non-zero (<U00FF> is LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS).

Andreas.

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