isprint/isspace segfaulting

Wed Dec 10 09:44:00 GMT 2003

Raj <raju@mailandnews.com> writes:

> Still the question bugs me. Why cant isspace() and family mask out bits
> which they are not bothered about ?

There is nothing to mask.  You are supposed to pass valid values,
everything else results in undefined behaviour.

Andreas.

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