Re: tolower()/islower() and char

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 07:46:01AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
 > > The standard is explicit that the argument must be EOF or an unsigned
 > > char.  There is no way to support both true 8bit locales and
 > > magically fix this.
 > 
 > No way for ctype.h to do so independent of the rest of the system.  But
 > it's not at all hard to fix it from a libc design perspective; you just
 > need to choose a value for EOF that is out of range for signed char.

I recall there being some debate about whether it's actually legal for
EOF to have any value other than -1.

FWIW.

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David A. Holland
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