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C Pocket Reference
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C Pocket Reference

by Peter Prinz, Ulla Kirch-Prinz
November 2002
Beginner to intermediate
142 pages
4h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Error Handling for Input/Output Functions

Errors on file access are indicated by the return value of the file access function. When the end of a file is encountered by a read function, for example, the symbolic constant EOF (for byte-oriented files) or WEOF (for wide-oriented files) is returned. If a read or write error has occurred, an error flag is also set in the FILE structure.

Furthermore, in reading or writing wide-oriented streams, errors can occur in the conversion between wide characters of type wchar_t and multibyte characters in the stream. This is the case if one of the conversion functions mbrtowc() and wcrtomb() does not return a permissible value. The global error variable errno then has the value EILSEQ (“error: illegal sequence”).

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