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Re: C struct syntax allowance by usage

From Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: C struct syntax allowance by usage
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Date 2015-10-25 13:47 -0500

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On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:17:45 -0400, James Kuyper
<jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote:

>On 10/24/2015 02:56 PM, Robert Wessel wrote:
>...
>> Writing to a fixed format file will usually get the "lines" padded or
>> wrapped as necessary (although truncation happens in some cases).
>> 
>> In the cases of wrapping or padding, you'll see that when you read the
>> file back in.
>
>The C standard explicitly allows for the possibility that padding blanks
>at the end of a line could be dropped somewhere along the line between
>being written to a text stream and being read back. However,  if no such
>padding was provided, the standard gives the implementation no
>permission to add such padding (7.21.2p3). An implementation of C would
>therefore have to come up with some method of making the added padding
>invisible. The simplest way to do so would be to drop all such padding
>on input from a text stream, whether or not it was present when first
>written to the file.


Never knew that...

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  Re: C struct syntax allowance by usage Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-17 10:31 +1300
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