How EOF is defined for binary and ascii files

Question

I\'m programming C on Windows(system language is Japanese), and I have a problem about EOF of binary and ascii files.

I asked this question last week, a kind guy help

Answer 1

This is a Windows-specific trick for text files: SUB character, which is represented by Ctrl+Z sequence, is interpreted as EOF by fgetc. You do not have to have 1A in your text file in order to get an EOF back from fgetc, though: once you reach the actual end of file, EOF would be returned.

The standard does not define 1A as the char value to represent an EOF. The constant for EOF is of type int, with a negative value outside the range of unsigned char. In fact, the reason why fgetc returns an int, not char, is to let it return a special value for EOF.