how to write () a constant?

[Larry Reznick]

In article <21689 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>	int val = 1234;
>	if (fwrite((void *)&val, sizeof(val), 1, stream)) != sizeof(val))
>		... handle error ...
>

The comparison is mistaken.  The fread() and fwrite() functions return
their 3rd parameters if there's no error.  So, the fragment should be
written as:

	if (fwrite((void *) &val, sizeof(val), 1, stream)) != 1) {
		... handle error ...
	}

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