From owner-freebsd-bugs  Sun Jul 21 13:22:31 1996
Return-Path: owner-bugs
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA24380
          for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:22:31 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA24309
          for <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:21:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous213.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.213]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA04844; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 22:08:39 +0200
Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01286; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 21:10:38 +0200
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 21:10:38 +0200
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Message-Id: <199607211910.VAA01286@campa.panke.de>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/1386
In-Reply-To: <199607182046.WAA07905@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <199607181740.TAA15160@keltia.freenix.fr>
	<199607182046.WAA07905@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

J. Wunsch writes:
>As Ollivier Robert wrote:
>> Why not just use an unsigned char instead of an int ?
>
>Because this still remains the C programmer's error #1.
>
>Think about it.  getc() returns an int.

We have dozens char c = getc() in our source tree. It seems lpf is the
only program which had real problems with this error.

Wolfram