Subject: Re: Type coersion long->int ?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 02/03/2000 10:46:12
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:03:55PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> It is officially able to take anything that can fit in a char, and indeed, our
> implementation can.
> 
> It doesn't have these checks because it's supposed to be fast; that's why all
> the <ctype.h> functions have undefined behavior for things outside the
> "standard" range.

Maybe a clue in the man pages? I didn't have a clue!

Cheers,

Patrick