David Laight wrote:
> > >Fix a load of international alphabet problems with isxxx() and toupper()
> > >Change isspace(*char_ptr) to isspace(*char_ptr & 0xff) so that the correct
> > >piece of memory is looked at for the bit mask.
> > >gcc optimises out the '& 0xff' (on i386 at least).
> > >Fixes problems found by gcc when the splurious (int) cast is removed
> > 
> > Why didn't you cast to (unsigned char) as is the current practice everywhere
> > else in the code?!?
> 
> Because I want the compiler to check that the argument is an integral value.
> In particular isdigit((unsigned char)cp) is a likely typo...

That's why compiler emits:

foo.c:x: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

for this case.

Please change those to use cast via (unsigned char), since _that_
is the correct form.

Jaromir 
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