Re: using the interfaces in ctype.h

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Neil Booth wrote:
> >     #define _CTYPE_MASK     ~(UINT_MAX << CHAR_BIT)
> 
> Hoho, if sizeof (char) == sizeof (int).

I believe that that's impossible.  The C standard doesn't explicitly
say it's impossible, but the requirement that gets() be able to return
EOF as well as returning any possible character strongly implies that
sizeof(int) > sizeof(char).

--apb (Alan Barrett)