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On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:59 PM, 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
> from the #defines in ctype.h

Uh... the right piece of memory would be looked at anyway because of 
the promotion rules, right?

I just don't see how this change is even remotely "correct".  Is this 
actually recommended usage of these functions??

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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