Christopher Faylor wrote:- > Can I ask why we'd be reading beyond EOF? Is it guaranteed that bytes beyond > EOF will be zero on UNIX?
This was discussed in September (see thread in gcc@ entitled "Bumming cycles out of parse_identifier"). It was decided that all known current Unix implementations have zeros until the next page boundary. Assuming EOF is indicated by a NUL is used as a lexer optimization. Neil. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
