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Re: Reading beyond the end of file

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Reading beyond the end of file
Date 2015-10-07 08:43 -0700
Organization None to speak of
Message-ID <lnr3l6k7ko.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink)
References (11 earlier) <lnio6l6gch.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <muthba$83c$1@speranza.aioe.org> <B2HQx.44892$XY2.8761@fx11.iad> <lnbncckn1w.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <H50Rx.47356$Rj5.26197@fx02.iad>

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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:
> On 10/6/15 11:56 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:
>>> On 10/5/15 5:53 AM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> And what about the sizeof(char)==sizeof(int) case?
>>>
>>> I HAVE used such a system, and their documentation warned that just
>>> because getchar() returned EOF, wasn't proof that end of file was
>>> reached, you needed to check feof() to be sure. If you knew that your
>>> file was 'text', you didn't need to do this, as ASCII characters were
>>> all values 0 to 127, only binary files could have a -1 character in
>>> them. (I believe this is even standard conforming).
>>
>> What system was it?  (And did the documentation warn you to call both
>> feof() and ferror()?)
>
> It was for a TI DSP chip many years ago. The processor basically had no 
> support for manipulation things smaller than 16 bits (its word size), 
> memory was word addressed. My guess is that they decided that it wasn't 
> worth implementing all the warts to fake out having an 8 bit char, and 
> figured users weren't going to be using a lot of text, so they just 
> stored things 1 '8 bit char' per 16 bit word.

Interesting.  I've heard about C implementations for DSPs having
CHAR_BIT > 8, but I've assumed that they would be freestanding
implementations that therefore would not be required to provide
<stdio.h>.  Apparently that was a bad assumption.

What is a full hosted implementation, or was it a freestanding
implementation that just happened to provide <stdio.h>?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-11 10:06 -0700
  Re: Reading beyond the end of file Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-11 12:41 -0700
    Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-26 14:24 -0700
      Re: Reading beyond the end of file Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-26 21:49 -0700
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-01 13:57 -0700
          Re: Reading beyond the end of file Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-01 17:22 -0700
            Re: Reading beyond the end of file raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-02 13:05 +0000
            Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-04 17:56 -0700
  Re: Reading beyond the end of file Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-09-11 13:55 -0600
    Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-26 14:14 -0700
      Re: Reading beyond the end of file Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-26 14:43 -0700
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-09-26 17:57 -0400
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-01 14:01 -0700
      Re: Reading beyond the end of file Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-09-26 22:18 -0600
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-01 12:58 -0700
          Re: Reading beyond the end of file Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-10-01 15:08 -0600
            Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-04 18:03 -0700
              Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 04:02 +0000
      Re: Reading beyond the end of file raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-02 09:31 -0700
          Re: Reading beyond the end of file Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-03 16:07 -0400
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-04 19:06 -0700
  Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-09-11 14:36 -0700
    Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-26 14:05 -0700
      Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-09-26 18:53 -0700
        Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-01 13:49 -0700
          Re: Reading beyond the end of file Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-01 20:23 -0400
            Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-02 06:14 +0000
            Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-04 19:03 -0700
              Re: Reading beyond the end of file Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-04 22:55 -0400
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 04:27 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-04 22:21 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 09:53 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-05 13:15 -0400
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-05 10:25 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 21:30 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 21:27 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-05 10:17 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-05 11:59 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-05 13:44 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 21:58 +0000
                Ones' complement subtraction supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-05 15:28 -0700
                Re: Ones' complement subtraction glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-06 02:14 +0000
                Re: Ones' complement subtraction supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-06 08:48 -0700
                Re: Ones' complement subtraction glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-06 20:55 +0000
                Re: Ones' complement subtraction supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-06 14:41 -0700
                Re: Ones' complement subtraction glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-07 00:14 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-05 15:24 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 21:39 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-05 15:31 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-06 03:04 +0000
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-06 08:55 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-06 11:44 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-05 23:16 -0400
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-06 10:29 -0400
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-06 08:56 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-06 23:13 -0400
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-06 22:01 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-07 08:43 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-07 10:02 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-07 13:08 -0700
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-07 22:03 -0400
                Re: Reading beyond the end of file Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-05 01:47 -0700

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