Re: read-file

[Larry Jones]

Simon Josefsson writes:
> 
> OTOH, if the EOF marker is already set, should we really continue to
> read from the stream?  The function may take an already open stream,
> that have been read from before.
> 
> Perhaps the function should also test ferror outside of the loop...

If either the end-of-file or error indicators are set for the stream,
the C Standard requires fread to immediately return 0 (aka "sticky"
EOF).  Most traditional implementations, however, do not do that.  That
said, I really don't care one way or the other what you do about it.  :-)

-Larry Jones

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I ought to be entitled to legal representation. -- Calvin