Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Can someone explain why this fixes the problem.
>
> Think about a machine where char is signed by default. Extracting \254
> into an int will produce -2, which will not equal \254 returned by getc.
Oh, I thought that the int returned by getc already had that sign
extension, but now I remember it doesn't. In fact, it specifically
returns an int so -1 can be identified. Got it. Seems I am forgetting
some of my C.
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