Re: long long vs long

[dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de]

Hi raf, you wrote:

: >With sizeof(char) = sizeof(int) = 1 and looking at K&R II pg. 16,
: >you'd got a problem with getchar() and EOF, if someone invents a
: >32bit charset and assumes to be able to use them all *and* EOF.
: >AFAIK the biggest charsets currently are 16bit (e.g. Unicode),
: >so at the moment you're safe with a 32bit char!
: 
: no, ISO has a 4-byte charset. it's like unicode but
: with separate copies of asian ideographs, one each for
: japanese, korean and chinese.
: 
: if using this charset, EOF would have to be ((long long)-1) :)

Hopefully ISO reserved the char at ((unsigned int)-1) exactly for EOF.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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