Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Have you any idea why this new error might have recently 
> > crept into the Windows build of both HEAD and 268pre?
> 
> Found it - the following new lines in read.d:
> 
>       while (listen_stream(in)) {
>         object c=read_char(in);
>         if (cat(c)!=cat_whitespace) {
>           unread_char(c,in);
>           break;
>         }
>       }
> 
> One of the places where listen_stream is used in read.d is #ifdefed out
> on the macro LISTEN_FOR_INPUT (defined for Linux but not Windows).
> 
> I wonder whether this might be appropriate in the above case?
> 

I see I misread your question earlier -- LISTEN_FOR_INPUT is only to
tell if a subsequent read will not block, i.e. there is some char on
the stream, including eof.  What we do above is swallow trailing
top-level whitespace.

Take care,

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Camm Maguire                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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