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From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Randall Hyde <randyhyde@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: getc in BSD (was FLEX issues)
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In <44A9AC43.3090606@jamesbailie.com>, James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> typed:
> Randall Hyde wrote:
>  > This kind of gives me the impression that "getc" is defined a bit
>  > differently under FreeBSD than other environments?  Any ideas?
> Yes.  It's defined as a macro.

Linux says that getc "may be implemented as a macro". Anything that
needs a function should be using fgetc, not getc. But

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