From K&R: We also declare 'c' to be an int, not a char, so it can hold the v...

jpd on Dec 20, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Will stdio outlive us?

From K&R:

  We also declare 'c' to be an int, not a char, so it can 
  hold the value which getchar returns. As we shall see in 
  Chapter 2, this value is actually an int, since it must be
  capable of representing EOF in addition to all possible 
  'char's.