On Aug 31, 1999, Nick Burrett nick@dsvr.net wrote:

Alexandre Oliva oliva@dcc.unicamp.br writes:

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+++ gcc/p/rts/file.c Sun Aug 29 15:56:11 1999 @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ _p_f_write (File, Buf, Size)

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• ssize_t result =

• size_t result =

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• if (result < 0)

• if (result == (size_t)-1)

You cannot do this. size_t may be unsigned.

That's the reason why I'm explicitly casting -1 to that type.

Also fwrite returned zero on error

That's not covered in the original code. Since I've never heard of fwrite returning less than -1, I think it is as correct as the original code.