Hi Michael, On 2009-01-13 13:43:03 +1300, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > It is correct English, though slightly hard to parse. > > The value EOF is returned if [[the end of input is reached]] before > either [[the first successful conversion]] or [[a matching failure > occurs]].
OK, but in such a case, I think there should be a comma before "before". Also, considering the case "the end of input is reached before a matching failure occurs" is a bit strange because an end of input cannot occur after a matching failure. > The POSIX.1 spec says something different, much closer to the Linux > man page: I've checked that, and I think there's a contradiction between POSIX and the ISO C on this point. I've just sent a mail to the mailing-list of the austin group: https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?CALLER=show_archive.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=11809 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
