On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:03:30PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> as if "safeputchar" is handed the result of dereferencing a "char *",
> and that byte has the 8th bit set, it'll be sign-extended, on machines
> with signed "char", and passed to "safeputchar()" as a negative number;
> that value will be < 0x80, as it's negative, but it's not safe to hand
> it to "isprint()".
> 
> I've checked that in.

I see the caveats in isprint(3) now.  Thanks.

> (BTW, are you the Kevin Steves formerly at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?)

Yes, that's me.  [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my most permanent address now.
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