CTRL(x) macro (was: Re: What is a constant expression)

Karl Heuer karl at haddock.ima.isc.com
Wed Oct 25 10:59:59 AEST 1989


In article <1422 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>control characters ... are defined as the values from 00-37 octal...

That definition may have been the original one, but as far as C is concerned
the only definition of `control character' is `what iscntrl() tests for' --
and this does include DEL on ASCII systems.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint



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