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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:54:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>
Cc:        fjoe@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: strange issue reading /dev/null
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.1.10.0808071150460.2133@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <489B22BD.5050109@kovesdan.org>
References:  <489B0ACD.80008@kovesdan.org> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0808071058020.1056@thor.farley.org> <489B22BD.5050109@kovesdan.org>

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Sean C. Farley ha scritto:
>> You are testing c which has not been set.  It works OK if you set c
>> then do the test:
>> 
>> +       c = fgetc(f);
>>         if (c != EOF)
>> -               printf("%c\n", fgetc(f));
>> +               printf("%c\n", c);
> Yes, you are right, this is what I meant, I'm just a bit
> disorganised....
> Thanks!

You are welcome.

Actually, what I found odd was that the base gcc did not warn about
using an uninitialized variable using -Wall.

Obviously, test fopen() and fgetc() return codes correctly as others
have noted.  I just assume you were not in your test program.

Sean
-- 
scf@FreeBSD.org



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