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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:54:16 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Cc:        des@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r196752 - head/lib/libc/stdtime
Message-ID:  <20090903115416.GB448@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <86zl9c9z05.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200909020456.n824uUqQ082136@svn.freebsd.org> <20090902070808.GA1290@arthur.nitro.dk> <20090902084002.GA17325@nagual.pp.ru> <867hwgcwvo.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20090903084325.GA65192@nagual.pp.ru> <86zl9c9z05.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:08:26AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> @@ -65,6 +65,15 @@
>  .It "\&031\ EM \t032\ SUB \t033\ ESC \t034\ FS \t035\ GS"
>  .It "\&036\ RS \t037\ US \t177\ DEL"
>  .El
> +.Pp
> +.Em NOTE :
> +if the value passed to the
> +.Fn iscntrl
> +function is a
> +.Vt signed char ,
> +as is usually the case, it must be cast to an
> +.Vt unsigned char
> +to avoid sign-extension errors.
>  .Sh RETURN VALUES
>  The
>  .Fn iscntrl

This is actually not good enough. ISO C doesn't specify whether plain
char is signed or unsigned.

Also, isascii is the only exception to this rule, so the change for that
is wrong.

Joerg


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