According to the C Standard, 7.4 [ISO/IEC 9899:2011],
The header
<ctype.h>
declares several functions useful for classifying and mapping characters. In all cases the argument is anint
, the value of which shall be representable as anunsigned char
or shall equal the value of the macroEOF
. If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.
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