Re: WinHugs bug: putChar (chr 255)

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:24:54 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hugs.user
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
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Bulat Ziganshin <[email protected]> writes:

> import System.IO
> import Data.Char
> main = do h <- openBinaryFile "test" WriteMode
>           hPutChar h (chr 255)
>           hPutChar h 'a'  -- never executed

In the underlying C API,  (char)255  ==  (char)-1  ==  EOF.
Regards,
    Malcolm