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[david wald]

In article <9142 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <gables.352 at umigw.miami.edu> slores%gables.span at umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes:
>>      while ( (c = getchar) != EOF)
>>              chcnt++ += (c == '\n');
...
>The final problem is that you say c is a char.  In that case it can
>never compare equal to EOF on many systems.  getchar() returns an int,
>not a char.

Doesn't the expression (c = getchar()) have type (int) regardless of the
type of c?  Or will c being a char really prevent this comparison?


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